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The Green Burial Guidebook
A lovely book detailing everything you need to plan an affordable, environmentally friendly burial.
The author, Elizabeth Fournier, is the owner and operator of Cornerstone Funeral Services in Boring, Oregon, the first green funeral home in the Portland metropolitan area. She works as a green mortician and eco-educator, and is affectionately known as the Green Reaper because of her passion of home funerals and natural burials.
Fournier includes straightforward steps for nearly every aspect of home funerals and environmentally friendly burials. Every element you can think of is there, from preserving the body (without embalming) and conducting a home funeral, to digging a grave and lowering the body, and even how to go about a burial-at-sea. She includes a clear legal framework by state as well as a great list of resources at the end.
There is a better way and Fournier, affectionately dubbed the "Green Reaper," walks readers through it, step-by-step. With green burial and home funeral basics to legal how and what's; choices in practices (at home, at sea, etc.); and even detours into examples of celebrity green burials; this is comprehensive and compassionate guidance.
The idea of a "good death" has been much discussed. Fournier points the way to good post-deaths, ones that consider the environmental well-being of the planet and the economic well-being of loved ones.
Paperback.
194 pages.
Dimensions: 8" x 5.25" x .25"