Brummet's Conscious Blog

 -- Green End-of-Life Planning -- Caskets - Environment Friendly Funeral By Linda W Brunner  You are forced to make lots of stressful and sometimes very expensive steps throughout a time period of serious psychological hardship that makes these already challenging steps even more complicated. Looking for caskets, choosing a spot for the service, purchasing a burial plot, arranging a wake or memorial service, what dress to bury your beloved in etc. are just a few of the options you will be required to make during this traumatic time. These strategies have created a lot of helpful suggestions to help you in making sure that the funeral you are managing is eco-friendly. There are several possible choices you can make to make sure that a funeral is beneficial to our environment; choices for instance the casket, the embalming, tombstone or marker, and many more. To start with, you need to consider what to do with the departed body. There are num...

-- Featured Guest Article - Green Funerals -- Karen Jones is the published author of: Death for Beginners Your No-Nonsense, Money-Saving Guide to Planning for the Inevitable .  She has taught writing in the past and truly believes in leaving the world a better place. Her humorous, money-saving, pragmatic workbook approach to planning for their end-of-life, for people interested in frugal and environmentally sound choices, and those wishing to avoid the nearly $10,000 a traditional burial now costs. Karen can be found at: www.DeathForBeginners.com Green Funerals Why not make a final eco-friendly statement by having a green burial? Stay with me here and breath!. Green burial, rapidly becoming one of the most popular types of burial, is where your body is prepared without chemical preservatives, put in a biodegradable container, then placed in the earth to decompose naturally. Talk about getting rid of your carbon footprint! There is no federal law and few state laws requiri...