Comments on: You can buy a casket at Costco. http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/07/16/you-can-buy-a-casket-at-costco/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:41:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/07/16/you-can-buy-a-casket-at-costco/#comment-21605 Erich Vieth Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:10:27 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2864#comment-21605 Ooops. I forgot to post the link to that risque cremation/ecology site: http://www.cremate-me.net/globalwarm.php See also, http://www.cremate-me.net/env.php Ooops. I forgot to post the link to that risque cremation/ecology site: http://www.cremate-me.net/globalwarm.php See also, http://www.cremate-me.net/env.php

]]> By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/07/16/you-can-buy-a-casket-at-costco/#comment-21531 Erich Vieth Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:03:27 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2864#comment-21531 Richard: Good point. I certainly don't want to make my last act an extravagant use of fossil fuel to burn my remains. But I do wonder what uses more fossil fuel: burning one body or making a simple biodegradable box, transporting it to a cemetery, digging a hole and filling it. The first question is how many tons of carbon does it produce to cremate a body? Well, thanks to Google, I found a risque site that does offer some serious looking numbers. Richard: Good point. I certainly don’t want to make my last act an extravagant use of fossil fuel to burn my remains.

But I do wonder what uses more fossil fuel: burning one body or making a simple biodegradable box, transporting it to a cemetery, digging a hole and filling it.

The first question is how many tons of carbon does it produce to cremate a body? Well, thanks to Google, I found a risque site that does offer some serious looking numbers.

]]> By: Richard Neal http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/07/16/you-can-buy-a-casket-at-costco/#comment-21528 Richard Neal Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:53:13 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2864#comment-21528 Cremation is much worse for the environment than a casket, especially if you get a biodegradable one. Cremation is much worse for the environment than a casket, especially if you get a biodegradable one.

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