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Green: The new black
66 Comments by October 29 9:23 AMI have my own (slightly) “green” story, which I will tell you later today. But, happily, it doesn’t involve anyone’s funeral. However, when Maine resident Klara Tammany’s mother passed away, her family and friends washed and dressed her body and put it in a homemade wooden casket, which was laid across two sawhorses in the dining room of her condo in Brunswick. Then, for two days, visitors brought cut flowers, wrote messages on the casket’s lid and said goodbye.
The Portland Press Herald reports that such funerals are part of an emerging trend of “green” final rites in which Americans avoid preservative chemicals and steel and concrete tombs that keep a body from decomposing naturally. Also available: Green cemetaries. Which raises a question: Why do we preserve the bodies of our dead? Now that I’m thinking about it, it seems a little creepy.
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