Sturdy cardboard coffins ensure a biodegradable departure

In case your time with us is almost over, consider doing those that remain a favour by ensuring your 'last act' is a green one. Rather than going up in smoke - on a large funeral pyre - how about recycling yourself, and allow the dust to return to dust?

Vast expanses of manicured lawns kept alive with wasteful water practices and chemical fertilizers; environmentally harmful and unnatural embalming fluids used to preserve what need not be preserved; overpriced, over-resourced, air tight coffins made from rare woods covered in toxic lacquers... Death these days is bad news for the environment. Although you can't stop the steady march of time, you can ensure that your passing does not take such a toll on the earth by informing your loved ones to provide you with a green burial.

... Instead of row upon row of grayish white tombstones, imagine being buried in a meadow of wildflowers, or forest setting. Imagine the comfort your loved ones will feel knowing that they can sit down and remember you while leaning against a tree that was planted above you, and which your everlasting energy feeds. In a sense, the tree is you – living on – as it was your body that provided the nutrients it needed to grow tall and strong. - Gaiam Community

Greensprings Eco-Cemetery (via Groovy Green) Duration: 00:04:45

Oh, but please don't hurry off though!