Comments on: Natural Burial: No Longer an Underground Movement

By: 090309: The Bookcase Coffin (fun) | Another corner in the circle room

090309: The Bookcase Coffin (fun) | Another corner in the circle room — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:44:54 +0000

[…] that will biodegrade quickly once in the ground, the bookcase/cofffin is definitely eco-friendly. Green burial is one thing. But storing books in your own coffin seems, to me, just a touch macabre. […]

By: Rogers Starks

Rogers Starks — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:41:28 +0000

I agree, it is a sensitive topic, but it is so also an industry that has been handling the dead for centuries — well established places like funeral homes, and the like. What going on here!

By: Sara Ost

Sara Ost — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:48:27 +0000

Great post, Luanne. I’ve always thought embalming and impenetrable caskets were just…weird. Put me in a plain pine box.

By: Luanne

Luanne — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:41:17 +0000

Sarah, I thought you might appreciate this. It’s amazing you knew early on how you wanted to be buried. Most of us can’t approach the topic, at all, and never specify how we want our loved ones to handle it at the end.

By: Sarah Irani

Sarah Irani — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:21:11 +0000

Thank goodness for this, what an incredible idea and I truly hope it hits the mainstream soon. Since I was a child, all I ever wanted for a burial was simply to be put into the ground with a peach tree planted over me.

The soil of the Earth is literally made up of death and decay, from broken down plants, animals, and the bodies of our ancestors (from long, long ago when they were actually put straight into the ground). The whole cultural situation with embalming and metal caskets comes from a fear of this death and decay, which is wholly natural and part of the cycle of life. As simple as that!

I for one will be glad and proud for my body to return to the soil — the same soil which grew the food that has sustained my life. The cycle will be complete.