What is the best option for an environmentally friendly funeral/burial?

Question

What is the best option for an environmentally friendly funeral/burial?

Answer 1

Go ask the Mafia!

They're very good at this kind of thing.

Answer 2

Dump the body in the woods.

Answer 3

Donate the organs (recycing at its highest glory)

Donate what remains to your medschool.

Reguardless how a person is 'disposed' of, they will be reused by the biological world eventually.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Answer 4

Buddhists in Tibet offer their dead bodies to the local wildlife. Too bad that would be highly illegal in the US.

Answer 5

Im only 13 and heard that cremation is the best environmentally friendly funeral

Answer 6

I recommend cremation.  

Ashes can then be either kept or spread somewhere to nurture the earth again without taking up space in a cemetary.

Answer 7

There is a place that buries you in a pure wooden box. Then, they plant a tree over your grave in memory instead of a tombstone. It is a great contribution to the environment, and in my opinion a lot more meaningful.

Answer 8

A cardboard coffin buried in a wood with a tree planted on top.

For those who prefer a more traditional look, without the cost of a wooden coffin, a cardboard coffin liner that is placed inside a (reused) traditional wood coffin may be the answer.

http://www.funeralsearch.co.uk/woodlands...

Answer 9

I think placing the dead person in a ship lighting the puppy on fire and sending at in the sea. This way you offend all things...water, wind, sky, wood and fire.

Answer 10

Don't put the body in water or anywhere near water, possibly a mausoleum.

Answer 11

What is the best option for an environmentally friendly funeral/burial?  Well, I know it sounds a bit gross but it would have to be compost. I mean lets face it once we are dead the body is totally useless and if we use them for compost it would be totally green, and we would be giving back to nature what we have taken.