Eco death don’t read if you’re depressed ?

I have been to the Burning Ghats in India.
I found it to be very moving.
Then wood was used to burn so much more eco than our crematoriums

I want to grow wild flowers when I am dead. and No coffin

merlotgran that is so sad and I feel for you.
My Mum opted for cremation as she (and all of us) walked miles to get to the churchyard to put flowers on my grandparents grave every week and she said that she wouldnt wish it on us.
I visited their grave last year and feel guilty for not having been there for a long time but we moved away from the area many years ago.
But I couldn’t go down the medical science route though, although I am an organ donor, if anything still works when I pop off!

Can you be buried with no coffin Oppsadaisy I d prefer that
Never seen that happen though
I like the thought of me feeding the insects and ground instead of polluting the air but don’t like the idea of being shut in a big coffin

You can have a cardboard coffin or wicker I think

You can have a burial shroud. I do smile when I think of the horrified look on DD2's face when it was suggested to us for DD1 though.

They must have a facility for composting bones as animal bones go into food waste which is turned into compost.

I quite fancy being the compost which feeds a tree.

I heard about the scheme Riverwalk refers to and read abiut it in the Observer (I think). The body is out in a cylinder with a some straw, a bit of peat and activated bacteria and the cylinder turns slowly ( a bit like a concrete lorry for about 30 days. By that time your body, bones and all is reduced to compost and they suggest can be dugin orund a favourite tree.

It uses far less fuel than cremation and the resulting compost will just biodegrade into the earth

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/dissolving_the_dead

Here's another option though not sure if available yet in UK

I d just like to go in a shroud that’s good enough isn’t it I don’t fancy spinning around for 80 days and I don’t mind if my bones stay around the rest of me is of a reasonable size to feed a lot of ants and the bones can just be there in the earth helping the ground have some stability

If you choose cremation, you can have your ashes made into a rock to form the base of an “eternal memorial reef” so that you can help coral reefs bloom after you’ve died. One Florida-based company offers a "second life at sea" bit.ly/2luRhrh

from Twitter a/c: @Rainmaker1973

No thanks bags I ve never been to Florida I don’t fancy it after I m dead either ?

MacSporran and I have read an amazing book - 'All That Remains' - written by Professor Dame Sue Black. We now wish to leave our bodies to the pathology department of a teaching hospital for the benefit of medical science.