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- valleyvideo, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4Give me a pine box, please. I'd much rather decompose naturally instead of becoming liquid goo at the bottom of an airtight, non-biodegradable coffin.
- cabeal, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4Hi there -
I'm the future cherry tree in question and FYI Oregon cherries are literally "for the birds". They're quite bitter and you wouldn't make a pie out of them. My actual instructions are to let me grow for about 80 years (that's prime life span for an Oregon Cherry) and then be cut down and gifted to a nearby technical college (I figure it will be about 2100 by then) and made into musical instruments, bowls and spoons.
In the UK, where there are lots of woodland burial sites, an increasingly popular option is the orchard - you can be either a fruit or a nut (depending on your proclivity in life) and a good pie can be had by all!
There's a lot of fun (and insight and wisdom) to be found by imagining a natural end - I encourage you to take it up; you might enjoy figuring out how to really get 'back to the land' after everything's said and done. And if it's not for you well, nature's not for everybody - that's for sure - naturephobes are all around us. I'm looking forward to the time, however, when the folks who like nature don't have to constantly be under the thumb of those that don't.
I like the idea of choice - I like the idea that if I want to live a cleaner, greener life, I can - and I like it that others who don't care about the same things have less and less control over whether I (and future generations) can have them or not. One of us is going to have a future natural world, and one of us isn't. It's that simple.
Go ahead - Be a Tree!
cheers,
Cynthia - WordsnCollision, on 12/31/2007, -1/+4And to whom will the first cherry pie be served? Not me!
- inghamb87, on 12/31/2007, -0/+2When I die, I want a coffin with a saw, a flashlight, a shovel and maybe an ipod (just in case I don't make it out!)
- Rotzooi, on 12/31/2007, -0/+1I think I love you.
- earthartist, on 01/09/2008, -0/+0Natural Burial Around the World
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