Flowers and Funerals

Green funerals cost less money and are friendly to the enviroment.  Many people today have commented that they are unhappy with the way in which the funeral industry has convinced people that the so called traditional or modern day funeral is the only proper way to deal with a death.  You know the kind of funeral service they mean, usually involves purchasing an expensive casket, buying a grave plot, having several large vehicles taxi the relatives to and from the cemetery and most importantly, will cost you and your family thousands of dollars.  Does spending a fortune on a funeral service really honour the deaceased?  Is it really dignified to pay as much for a funeral casket as you could pay for a new car?  Is chemical embalming a dead body in anyway natural or dignified?

 Although there are many different types of burials and burial sites, green funerals and greeen burial sites tend to look more like golf courses or nature parks.  Metal caskets and embalming are not permitted and the preference is for cardboard caskets.  Some green burial sites plant trees as opposed to using grave markers and headstones making the whole process a much more natural form of burial.  Todays modern cemteries can hardly be described as natural resting places when they are burying metal caskets, with bodies full of embalming fluids that over time will contaminate all the surrounding areas with sometimes toxic chemicals.  According to “TheGreen Burial Council” enough metal is buried in the US to build a whole new Golden Gates bridge every year not to mention the amount of concrete being used to house these metal caskets.  Even cremation is seen to day as much more eco friendly method than a standard burial and cremations require huge amounts of natural gas and electricity.

With regards to the overall costs, todays traditional burial services including elaborate caskets with all the trimmings can top $10,000 in comparison, a green funeral can cost under $2000.