Green burials versus Traditional burials
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Life is a complete circle. Who comes, has to leave one day. In the industrial era of today, it not only is important to live green, but it is also important to die green. What is intended here is that staying environment friendly is a requirement that should continue till your final breath. Anything you have done throughout your life in saving the planet should not go down the drain after your demise. For the healthy reimbursement of the environment, Green burial are increasingly being very familiar. There are numerous reasons why a Green cemetery is taking over the place of cremation and other modes of burial. The most important of it is being environment friendly.
More than just being cheap and inexpensive, this mode of a funeral will entirely do justice to your affection to the dead. As much as you lay emphasis on green living, dying green should be similarly given preference to. If we gather all the embalming solution used, it is not amazing that it will fill eight of the Olympic-size swimming pools. Now that is way too much!
According to a reaearch it has been shown that there are more than 22,500 burial grounds that use around 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid on the dead bodies of their loved ones. Embalming fluids consist of different chemicals like formaldehyde, disinfectants, methanol, phenols, dyes and etc, that are not very beneficial to the earth. Moreover, these chemicals seep down till the ground water level and may lead to severe illnesses when drunk with water.
Now the question arises, why should we go for a green burial when we can simply afford an expensive one? The answer to this is quite uncomplicated and explainable. However the person is dead, but it feels good to make him comfortable even in his burial place. You want your loved one to rest in peace, hence you must make it serene for him in there. A biodegradable casket, with a bedspread over it, will surely give you a satisfactory feel that your loved one is resting in peace. Added to this would be a soothing sight of the grave under a flower bed of different flowers and shrubs that surround the dead. Even though a metal coffin with a heavy vault will look nice at the ceremony, it will not be able to complete the circle of life as powerfully as a green burial will.
Finally, the nature has to play its game. The corpse has to return back to the ground to return back the nutrients it is composed of. The environment needs to be conserved for the future generations to come. Non-renewable supplies used in a traditional funeral will not only finish the natural growth, but also they will prove to be very unhealthy for the people years later. Thus, a solution to continue it all according to the nature’s own technique, is an environment friendly burial. Even though it may seem like a cliché now, but it is about time that we should understand this; save the planet!






