@sycobuny is right. The place I linked to offers green burials, but it's a bit of a country club. You still have to fork over a lot of cash for a plot and maybe $5,000 for one of their special green coffins. Plus, some green burial places don't offer shallow burial. They place you six feet under. It turns out that too has it has ecological drawbacks.Burying someone deep under the topsoil makes no natural sense, even if you wrap them in a shroud of poppy petals and kale. Dead stuff in nature is exposed to the elements. Scavenging animals come. Wind blows. Dirt erodes it away. Dust proverbially turns to dust. In Tibet, they're comfortable with this part of death, and they embrace it. What they call "sky burial" we would call, "being left out for birds to eat.".@MikeLeePearl re: http://t.co/HZHl6qgyYC seriously agree with last paragraph, but not seeing where that option is listed in the given link?
— Screamin Belcher (@sycobuny) September 19, 2013
The vehement refutation is food for thought, but given how Susanne seems eager to move forward, it doesn't scan that she's simply lying, unless she's completely deranged. She seems like her head is together though. She told WIRED the Swedish death industry profits from a taboo on talking about death:She has kept dead people in a freezer for 10 years. They have been waiting for it to start but the technology… it doesn't work. So now the government has said they can't wait any longer, they have to bury them… I know in the beginning we wanted to talk to her and maybe collaborate. But now she hasn't any… she can't do it.
I'd still like to be thrown into the woods when I die. I thought it over, and it does seem potentially traumatic for someone else (a family member maybe) if they have to look at my festering corpse in tact. Therefore I, Mike Pearl, being of sound mind, hereby state that I wish to be freeze-dried when I expire.@MikeLeePearlMore on death:People Are Now Crowdfunding Their Funerals OnlineFake Funerals in South KoreaCalifornians Are Dying to Go to ColmaI think it's very convenient for the cremation industry to sustain the taboo because then they can work on their own without any questions. If you tell people for 150 years 'This is a very quiet and complicated area, you don't really want to talk about it do you?' then that's probably what people will end up thinking in the end.