Dead and Gone. a Look Into Natural Human Burial
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“Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and tries. But life looks different through everyone’s eyes.”
Quote (unknown author)
“Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and tries. But life looks different through everyone’s eyes.”
If life looks different through everyone’s eyes, then so does death and the way we wish to be buried. If you are part of a religion then burial may be taken out of your hands and you will just follow the rules and traditions of the past. But right now with our diverse beliefs and opinions on religion and non-religion, death and burial are once again available to be carried out in the exact way we want it to be done personally.
Not many people think about their own funeral before they die. Even less take the time to plan their own funeral before they die, but isn’t it our own responsibility to decide what, where and how we want to leave this world?
There is no getting away from it, death costs and this is where we start paying for it… Well perhaps we should anyway. The cost of a funeral can literally cost and arm and a leg but whether we like it or not we have to be responsible for what happens to our body when we have gone.
The funeral you choose will reflect you, your aim in life, your personality, your beliefs, so you do owe it to yourself to be content in death.
Burial grounds are once more becoming an exciting option. They are not a new concept and have been used world wide since the first tribes lay their loved ones into the ground but now more than ever we are being given the choice not to be buried in the local cemetery but to be buried in a natural burial ground, with no fancy coffins, unless that’s what you want of course. This type of burial is not “burial on a shoe string” for some of us it is a chance to give something back to the earth for all that we have got out of it… Our body.
These natural burial sites are becoming more readily available throughout the United Kingdom and much thought has gone into future sustainability of the sites, how they will look and how they will support themselves when all the plots have been sold. Many sites are growing into woodland, memorial trees are planted to mark the grave site instead of grave stones and as the woodlands become more established and new trees are born through woodland management the site becomes self sufficient as the new trees are felled and their use as a biodegradable product is born. Some of the sites remain as agricultural land and continue to be grazed as a meadow by our farm animals. These meadows not only give life to farm animals that will go on to feed us but they are also the life for many small mammals, bugs and insects that we need in order to bring a balance back into our land.
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Post CommentGuy Hogan
On December 12, 2010 at 9:58 am
I guess I’m odd. Once I’m dead I don’t care what is done with my corpse.
SharifaMcFarlane
On December 12, 2010 at 9:59 am
A good option for people who don’t want to use cremation. In a way a coffin is a wasteful expense. You’re not going to live in there.
I believe the soul is separate from the body. Why not let the physical body continue to be a part of the cycle of life by helping something else grow?
SimplyShash
On December 12, 2010 at 10:01 am
Thats prudent post. Keep coming.
Will Dee
On December 12, 2010 at 10:06 am
Good article it gives you something to think about.
Starpisces
On December 12, 2010 at 10:20 am
something that never cross my mind, but you said it well…let me consider first…….:)
lyan08
On December 12, 2010 at 11:16 am
good share.
Mark Gordon Brown
On December 12, 2010 at 11:42 am
wow, I cannot wait til this comes to North America!
lillyrose
On December 12, 2010 at 12:28 pm
You have your own Land Mark, you may be able to bury yourself in your own land. We can here in the UK and I do know of people with land that have their relatives buried on the land under an old oak tree!
Guy, it’s not a case of not caring what happens to your body once you have gone, it’s a case of sorting out your burial before you go. We all have to be disposed of one way or another and why should our families or the state be left with the burden.
Well said Sharifa, I couldn’t agree more.
Jimmy Shilaho
On December 12, 2010 at 1:30 pm
I believe you. Maybe we need to do a little more thinking in that direction.
Atanacio
On December 12, 2010 at 1:55 pm
This was indeed a very good share
Brewed Coffee
On December 12, 2010 at 8:37 pm
It’s something we really should give some thoughts….we plan how to live, I guess it’s proper to plan for that day too…
jimbob1
On December 13, 2010 at 12:00 am
Miss Lilly…this is a tremendous article dealing with an issue that most of us prefer to shy away from and ignore until it is too late and then someone else is left to make our decisions for us…natural buriaol sites were common in the settling of Canada and the United States but that practice has wained in the memorial past but maybe it is time to start looking at this renewed option…will have to do som e checking on availablity of this option, which I don’t think is available to us here…I voted that I like this and it is very appropriate regards of one’s faith or religious beliefs…great job, as per usual…thanks and take care
crisdiwata
On December 13, 2010 at 4:38 am
I just wanted to be returned where I came from. From dusts I came to dusts I shall return.
gaby7
On December 13, 2010 at 10:04 am
Burial in my village used to be just like that-the dead would be buried without coffins, trees would be planted on their graves with the believe that they would nourish the tree to life and thereafter, their spirits would live in the trees! It was a very environmentally relevant way to deal with burial of the dead!
albert1jemi
On December 13, 2010 at 12:46 pm
good
Sharif Ishnin
On December 14, 2010 at 7:13 am
Well I know where I’ll be going. I’ve been sending off dead relatives to the burial grounds quite often now. No fancy coffins for me definitely. Meeting my creator should be simple as possible affair. Good discussion Lisa.
oldster
On December 14, 2010 at 7:19 am
I must admit I don’t give a lot of thought daily to my ultimate demise. I am against chopping down trees for coffins – so maybe a snappy wrap (to keep me fresh) and chucking on a fire would be good. Obviously I’d love to give back to the land – but not take up space – so scattered over me garden is good.
Church – services – ceremonies? – nah just leave a few bob over the bar.
Anyway in this day and age shouldn’t we be recycling Lilly?
I don’t mean going to heaven on bikes of course – maybe minced up for the animals we eat? Perfect symmetry eh?
lillyrose
On December 14, 2010 at 10:19 am
haha… I agree with you oldster! I don’t want a service, I may do a DVD to be played by friends and family, just to upset and scare them! I am not religious, I want people to enjoy the fact that I am gone and will no longer be there to check up on them.
STEVE666
On December 14, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Actually, I’m an organ donor. I don’t know how I became one, but I did. Somewhat drunk, I vaguely recall answering a few questions for this rather attractive lady who stopped me in the street who then asked me to sign something. A few days later I got this letter thanking me for becoming an organ donor. True!
I’d been body-snatched.
freelaptops4all.com
On December 14, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Very interesting….it is very important that each of us take responsibility for our funeral and burial arrangements since they can get costly, as you mentioned. If we don’t take care of these ourselves, then the burden will fall on our grieving family members, which wouldn’t be fair. That said, there are ways to ensure a very simple, yet dignified, burial. Coffins don’t need to be overly costly. I guess this also depends on where in the world one lives. In any case, even though we are gone from this world, we should ensure that all our affairs are taken care of beforehand.
yes me
On December 19, 2010 at 10:48 am
Liked this one, I often look in awe at groups of trees usually on a hill, I always thought that was what it was an old burial ground hmm like it cheers
wonder
On December 24, 2010 at 4:09 am
A thought with a different angle, and why not?It is for the better. I love the logic and the article.
Geny
On January 2, 2011 at 11:56 am
nise.
Phoenix Montoya
On January 2, 2011 at 7:46 pm
This is nice and some sort of old fashion, in a way. But when I was younger, I favor cremation coz I want relatives close by