The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial

The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial

Elizabeth Fournier
$17.95
Publication Date: May 15th, 2018
Publisher:
New World Library
ISBN:
9781608685233
Pages:
208
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Staff Reviews

There are more options for your body after you’ve died than cremation or being preserved and locked away in a coffin. This guidebook introduces a number of alternatives that are greener and harken back to some of humanity’s oldest traditions. Death is an uncomfortable topic, but it’s going to happen to you and everyone you love and hate. Taking the time to think about your options, and figure out what you want to do with your vacated vessel is a kindness to yourself and your loved ones.

— Izzy M

Description

Funeral expenses in the United States average more than $10,000. And every year conventional funerals bury millions of tons of wood, concrete, and metals, as well as millions of gallons of carcinogenic embalming fluid. There is a better way, and Elizabeth Fournier, affectionately dubbed the "Green Reaper," walks you through it, step-by-step. She provides comprehensive and compassionate guidance, covering everything from green burial planning and home funeral basics to legal guidelines and outside-the-box options, such as burials at sea. Fournier points the way to green burial practices that consider both the environmental well-being of the planet and the economic well-being of loved ones.

About 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 is a member of the international board of directors for North America Natural Burial and the advisory board for the Green Burial Council, the environmental certification organization setting the standards for green burial in North America.