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Current mood:  accomplished Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
I found this information interesting and useful and wanted to share it. Lots of information is available through these links and their links too. I am happy indeed to see people reclaiming our birth and death right. Why spend thousands of dollars and be lulled into one of the many money grubbing industries that seeks to take away yet another one of our freedoms. To know our choice is key!
Links Home and family directed funerals, in Southern CA: The resources page has good links for more information and other alternative funeral type services in the US http://www.thresholds.us/ -Includes links to article, news report and movie http://www.finalpassages.org/ On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. Instead of the friendly union, of life and death so apparent in Nature, we are taught that death is an accident, a deplorable punishment for the oldest sin, the archenemy of life. But let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. All is divine harmony. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Interesting Facts Every day across North America alone, 6000 plus acres of open space are leveled in an ever widening and endless swath of highways and airports, condos, malls, and factories. While the costs of purchasing, restoring, monitoring, and preserving land keeps steadily climbing, millions of acres of natural beauty are lost. Glendale Memorial Nature Preserve, however, is an enclave of escape from that trend. TRADITIONAL - for thousands of years: - DIY: Direct burial by you, the family.
- Simple shroud, blanket, or locally-made caskets OK.
- Ecologically sound and inexpensive interment.
- Room for everyone, including your pets.
NON-TRADITIONAL - the last 50 years: - Burial by a for-profit corporation.
- Your loved one is injected with expensive, toxic chemicals
- Expensive caskets and useless concrete vaults usually required.
- Multiple, side-by-side plots but no room for your pets.
Did you Know? -Your body or that of your loved one can lie in honor at home -Embalming is not required by law -Refrigeration is not necessary -Legal documents can be prepared by family or agent -Family can transport the body to crematory or cemetery. ..tr>| Each year, 22,500 cemeteries across the United States bury approximately:
~ embalming fluid: 827,060 gallons, which includes formaldehyde
~ caskets: 90,272 tons of steel
~ caskets: 2,700 tons of copper and bronze
~ caskets: 30-plus million board feet of hardwoods
~ vaults: 1,636,000 tons of reinforced concrete
~ vaults: 14,000 tons of steel
(Compiled from statistics by Casket and Funeral Association of America, Cremation Association of North America, Doric Inc., The Rainforest Action Network, and Mary Woodsen, Pre-Posthumous Society) | ..table>
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