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Originally Posted by Trantor
when BURYING our dead, we CAN do something about it.
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I didn't know burials in Brasil just used a simple burial shroud, I thought Brasil (like, say, the US) used coffins that are far from bio-degradable. If one is buried in a plain wooden box or just a shroud it's bio-degradable and less harmful to the enviorment (as long as the body isn't full of chemicals and metals) - as long as there is ample space to bury and to let it take the time it does to degrade.
Cremation also allows for the pollutants to be cleaned before the "exhausts" are released into the atmosphere. Afaik that's standard. Cremation is NOT more harmful to the enviorment than the average Western burial.
There's a third way beign developed here in Sweden: freeze-drying the corpses. Then the resulting powder is made free from whatever non-natural bits are in there (like artificial hip-joints) and this powder is then buried and is very quickly made part of the eco-system again.
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