02 Jul 2006
Plots let you get back to nature -- eternally

Nice article on "green burial". If this option were available here, I'd certainly avail myself of it when the time comes. Although I would have a headstone raised ... that's one of the problems with modern cemeteries.

Religiously, raising a runestone (in modern terms, a headstone) is my obligation to my parents, to insure that they're remembered in succeeding generations. It's my children's obligation to me, but it's one they might not be able to fulfill. Most modern burial plots forbid raised markers, because it's too hard to cut the grass around them! This makes graves nearly impossible to find without a map, and makes strolling across our heritage about as interesting as walking one of my pastures or paddocks. Modern cemeteries don't look like necropoleis: they look like golf courses.

Since green graveyards won't be trimming the verge, there should be no reason why a stone could not be raised. Which to me is one more reason to support this movement.

It sits on the eastern fringe of New York's Finger Lakes region and is bounded on three sides by 8,000 acres of protected forests: a perfectly natural place to spend an eternity.

(link) [CNN.com]

08:00 /Asatru | 2 comments | permanent link