Green Burial

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This video clip, produced by KQED (PBS) in San Francisco, looks at Green Burials as an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional funeral and body disposal methods. Tired of toxic embalming fluid, rainforest wood caskets and other ecologically unfriendly practices, a new generation of undertakers is attempting to green up the funeral industry with burials that go easy on the land. This clip includes footage about Jerrigrace Lyons of Final Passages, a pioneer in the Green Burial movement. Final Passages has created a guidebook titled Creating Home Funerals, which provides a family with all the information they need to orchestrate their own home funeral.
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