{"id":2024,"date":"2004-06-23T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2004-06-23T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T17:14:14","slug":"the-organic-burial-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/the-organic-burial-option\/","title":{"rendered":"The Organic Burial Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As 7d said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/sixfeetunder\/episode\/season4\/sea4_eps1.shtml\" class=\"external external_icon\">&#8216;Six Feet Under&#8217; <\/a>beat them to it&#8217;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By LISA LEFF<br \/>\nMILL VALLEY, Calif. (AP) &#8211; In what may be the ultimate expression of back to nature, three entrepreneurs are creating what they say is California&#8217;s first organic cemetery, hoping their ban on floral arrangements and formaldehyde will serve as a national model.<\/p>\n<p>Embalming fluid, metal caskets and marble headstones won&#8217;t be permitted at Fernwood Forever. Instead, <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20040623\/D83CRB180.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">the dead will be placed in biodegradable boxes or shrouds and interred in nondescript graves that mourners can dig themselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure visitors pay their respects at the right spot, the cemetery will provide global positioning system devices and native boulders as markers.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memorialecosystems.com\" class=\"external external_icon\">partners think their business model<\/a> can be easily replicated in other crowded areas where space is at a premium. Co-owner Tyler Cassity said they already are scouting potential sites in Oregon, near Seattle and outside Chicago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via 7d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 7d said, &#8216;Six Feet Under&#8217; beat them to it&#8217;: By LISA LEFF MILL VALLEY, Calif. (AP) &#8211; In what may be the ultimate expression of back to nature, three entrepreneurs are creating what they say is California&#8217;s first organic cemetery, hoping their ban on floral arrangements and formaldehyde will serve as a national model. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}