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Baby Boomers want personalized, nontraditional funeral and burial services. Funeral directors now offer plasma screen videos, cremation jewelry, underwater burial, colorful hearses, and themed viewing rooms.

Brief history of human burial and information about the new trend in burial called a "natural" burial.

Your final resting place doesn't have to be a traditional cemetery or a columbarium. Thanks to the spreading green burial movement, you have some new and more creative options, all of them friendly to the environment.

Description of a green burial and it's advantages.

The modern concept of natural burial began in 1993 and has since spread across the globe. There are now several hundred natural burial grounds in the United Kingdom and half a dozen sites in the USA, with others planned in Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and even China.

Green burials, body donation, and other ways to responsibly and respectfully care for the dead.

Remember "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," death is a natural process. Green alternatives for our perpetual life.

Alkaline hydrolysis is being promoted as the 'green return to the dust', but can the American people accept returning to dust by way of a lye filled pressure cooker?

A look at how America can improve its environmental impact on the world.

When a loved one dies, Americans tend to cling to the notion of corpse preservation, embalming it and containing it in brass coffins and cement. In other cultures, death is accepted and occasionally celebrated.

"Resomation" is a process of breaking down dead bodies via alkaline hydrolysis. Backers claim it is more environmentally friendly than burial or cremation, but it's not easy to convince someone to have a loved one melted down into a green-brown goop.

Natural burial--being buried without embalming and in biodegradable caskets--is the ultimate example of the cycle of life.

Green burials can save money and help the environment.

An eco-friendly and cost-effective legacy to your loved one exists! Green plots are serenely appointed and have truly long-lasting benefits for the environment.

Are you looking for the most eco-friendly burial options? Consider being interred at Ramsey Creek Preserve where the setting is natural and the burial practices are extremely environmentally friendly.

Indiana has a number of haunted cemeteries, but there are just as many headstones and individual burial plots that people love to talk about.

Handling the remains of a loved one is a decision that many families make together; however, there are times when a family can't agree on a decision.

This is an article discussing an 7 eco-friendly ways to say goodbye -forever!

Religion, cost, being launched into space, floating in the wind - what is your choice? Is it a celebration or profound sadness? Maybe both.

We hear a lot in the news about bad things teenagers are doing these days. Rarely do we hear anything about the good. This is a great story about a group of great teenagers helping to honor a dying man's final wishes. Too many kids today are wrapped up in themselves

People were usually buried soon after death usually within 24 hrs. The Jews did not normally cremate or use coffins nor did they embalm.

For those concerned about the environment and our land resources, there is now a new trend in caskets-biodegradable coffins that will actually enrich the earth with nutrients, as they decompose.

In my experience working with the funeral homes at the obituary desk, and then using Rose Family when a loved one passed away, I can confidently say that Rose Family is an excellent mortuary!

Cremation was practiced by "Pagans"while early Christians practiced burial or placing the body in catacombs. Today's Christians have differing views and practices regarding cremation.

Professor Roger Short of Melborne, Australia reports that the act of cremation furthers the effects of global warming, and possibly ought to be stopped.

A basic guide to common funeral etiquette when attending funerals for Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish and Sikhs.

An Allegorical analysis of Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral In My Brain," using slant rhyme, classic ballad style meter, cadence, auditory imagery, synecdoche, kinesthesia and alliteration.

In the wake of Anna Nicole Smith's death and the judge's order to have her body embalmed, as the fight for paternity and burial rights continue, another subject was starting to spark my interest as I followed this story: embalming.

Modern Man Eater advertises itself as the modern burial cremation alternative. It offers to turn your body into food-grade quality vitamins to strengthen your family for years to come.

Located near the "spur" in the boot that is Italy, this tiny group of islands can provide you with a once-in-a-lifetime wedding or honeymoon.

Sheboygan, Wi is a great city to visit during any season. The riverfront is host to lovely shops and restaurants, and is only minutes from Lake Michigan. There are many great places to experience in the surrounding areas, and the people are friendly.

Biblical reference to the alliance of Phonecia to Ancient Israel telling of barter and trade.

When it comes to aging, modern science agrees with the wisdom of the ages, that naturally occuring properties in plants and herbs have important anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory properties that help in facial rejuvination and anti-aging of the face.

Ancient sculptures, statuettes and figurines of wide-ranging artistic interpretations of the human form were a way in which man translates the revelation of his many gods.

Pomo Indians are locked in a conflict with John Nady, the inventor of the wireless microphone for control of sacred sites. The conflict has divided the remote community of Lake County, California.

The death penalty is unjustified for juveniles. Since juveniles do not have the same rights and priviledges as adults, the consequences for their actions should differ as well.

New Jersey's Legislation to abolish the Death Penalty has been a hot debate item. This has been a sore subject for many in the state including the family of Megan Kanka, who was murdered, raped and beaten by convicted child rapist, Jesse Timmendequas, in 1994.

This article examines the various court decisions and reasoning given in those decisions to uphold the death penalty.

A series of studies indicate that the death penalty deters potential murderers, although advocates for the abolition of the death penalty have disputed the results of the studies.

To resolve problems of cruelty with the death penalty the NC State Legislature required a doctor to monitor the prisoner. The State Medical Board determined that a doctor cannot participate in the execution due to their oath.

The death penalty actually increases criminal activity and does not serve as a deterrant.

Learning that the Legislature will vote on a Bill to Abolish the Death Penalty bring great pain and anxiety to many victims and their families

This is a powerfull argument with some powerfulI examples. After hearing this argument in the form of these examples I changed my mind about the death peanalty in limited instances. Here is the argument and examples that changed my mind.

When it comes to abortion and the death penalty, most conservatives oppose abortion but support the death penalty. This doesn't make sense. But then most liberals support abortion but oppose the death penalty. This makes just as little sense.

"People who commit worse crimes often don't get the death penalty if they have a better lawyer than people who commit less aggravated crimes." I feel that this is the major problem with the death penalty, and one that must be adressed.

In today's society, the issue of the death penalty and capital punishment is still a big one. We as Americans have the right and freedom to express ourselves without regard or compassion for others feelings.

A closer look at the issues on death sentence which is usually the most hotly debated issue amongst human rights activists, the type of execution methods and arguments for and against death penalty.

The death penalty has been deemed an appropriate method of punishment as well as a deterrent of future crimes, and yet statistics and morality prove otherwise.

What is right and what is wrong with the death penalty?

Arapahoe County District Attorney, Carol Chambers, seeks the death penalty for two men in a fatal shooting.