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Cost and environmental sustainability problems with burial and cremation
Both burial and cremation impact the environment. Research indicates because of the ongoing maintenance, burial is worse than cremations which emit toxins, fine particulate matter and use fossil fuels. While a natural burial is great, it is expensive because land is finite and is out of the price range of most people...
2023 Australian Seniors Report - Cost of Death
2021 Bare Research into environmental impacts of funerals: burials vs cremation
2010 Research Death and Disposal: The universal, environmental dilemma
The Human Composting process
2022 Article in the New York Times which explains the human composting (or Natural Organic Reduction) process, as part of an Op Ed by Caitlyn Doughty, a mortician and author of three books on death and the funeral industry
If you want to give something back to nature, give your body
WebMD description of the process
2021 ABC article on Body Composting, a 'green' alternative to burial and cremation
2020 article from The Conversation about composting burial
Respect, dignity and alternative options for disposition; and the importance of community - dying, death and grief
The Health Council of the Netherlands advisory report on 'The admissibility of new techniques of disposing of the dead'
The Lancet Medical Journal 2022 Commission on the Value of Death: Bringing Death back into Life
If you haven't seen it, the SBS TV series by Ray Martin The Last Goodbye is well worth watching