Article - Natural Burials and Green Cemeteries

Completed Posted Mar 3, 2010 Paid on delivery
Completed Paid on delivery

Hi! I would like a brief, engaging article written about Natural Burials and Green Cemeteries that provides information about:

1) Natural burials and natural burial grounds/green cemeteries. Please describe what they are, what is involved (e.g. shrouds, cardboard caskets, markers like trees, natural stones, gps etc), their history (how, where and why they came about) and their benefits (e.g. good for the environment (reduces pollution, land conservation, biodiversity etc), aesthetically pleasing (beautiful parklands), cheaper, lasting memorial etc).

2) Modern funerals and the funerary industry. Please highlight the environmental and economic problems with modern funerals and the modern funerary industry such as embalming, putrefication caused by anaerobic breakdown (bodies turn into toxic sludge) rather than natural decomposition, problems with cremation, huge waste of resources in coffins and other rigmaroll, overcrowded and unsightly cemeteries, running out of space, fertilisers and pesticides used to create artificially green cemeteries, cemeteries are a toxic wasteland, and touch on the up-selling and usury that occurs in the funeral industry that takes advantage of people's grief and lack of education, the dislocation in returning our bodies to the earth etc

3) Burial alternatives - please mention alternatives and their benefits like funeral at home, natural earth burials, sea burials, reef burials, if you have time and space you could describe burial practices of other religions/cultures

4) Please also mention why 'hybrid' cemeteries should not be encouraged (used what has happened in the UK as an example)

Specifications:

- Purpose of the article is to educate people about the environmental and economic problems with 'modern' funerals, raise awareness about alternatives and support natural earth burials

- Writing style should be brief and engaging

- Please use sub-titles and divide information logically and into "bite-sized pieces" (one to three paragraphs at the most)

- Please substantiate arguments based in fact

- Use you creativity to paint a picture about the beauty of returning to earth, and use the GREEN CEMETERIES tag line if you want ("Imagine life from death, imagine a greener Earth, imagine a living memorial" GREEN CEMETERIES 2010)

Feel free to ask for clarification or offer suggestions. I'm looking forward to working with you!

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Project ID: #626418

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