The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (676 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1608685233 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 172 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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She works as a green mortician and eco-educator, and is affectionately known as the Green Reaper because of her passion of home funerals and natural burials. She is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the Green Burial Council, the environmental certification organization setting the standard for green burial in North America. . Elizabeth Fournier is the owner and operator of Cornerstone
bury 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid, containing carcinogenic formaldehyde; hundreds of thousands of tons of wood, steel, copper, and bronze caskets; and millions of tons of concrete vaults. Despite the widespread attention garnered by Jessica Mitford's 1963 exposé of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death, the American way of death still includes average funeral expenses of between $8,000 and $12,000. Fournier points the way to good post-deaths, ones that consider the environmental well-being of the planet and the economic well-being of loved ones.. What's more, every year conventional burials in the U.S. With green burial and home funeral basics to legal how and what's; choices in practices (at home, at sea, etc.); and even detours into examples of celebrity green burials; this is comprehensive and compassionate guidance. The idea of a "good death" has been much discussed. There is a better way and Fournier, affectionately dubbed the "Green Reaper," walks readers through it, step-by-step
Her advocacy of natural burial has earned her the nickname 'the Green Reaper.' " Portland Monthly. "Elizabeth Fournier is doing her part to change the way Americans bury their dead. She encourages clients to understand that they can wash and dress bodies for disposition (she will assist); bury bodies in wood boxes or other biodegradable containers (green burial); inter bodies or cremains on property they own; and act as their own funeral director. Besides being a longtime champion of 'green burials,' she's also determined to do whatever she can to take the financial sting out of funeral expenses."People"Fournier also offers options, foremost among them an approach that recalls how we've m