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Green burials are throwbacks to the days when people were interred in shrouds or in pine boxes. Very biodegradable. Very good for the environment. Very inexpensive.

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Basically, the posthumous preparation involves not using toxic chemicals such as embalming fluids or other hazardous materials. Non biodegradable materials, such as metal caskets or con crete burial vaults, are not used either. At true green burials, the grave is dug by hand, not a piece of heavy equipment burning fossil fuels.

According to the New Mexico based Green Burials Council, such services are a return to basics.

“Green burial uses less energy and creates less waste than conventional burial,” the council’s website says. “It’s essentially the way most of humanity cared for its dead for thousands of years up until the late 19th century.”

Joe Sehee, Green Burials Council’s executive director, cited recent polls showing that green buri als are increasing across the nation.

An AARP poll in 2007 showed that just over 20 percent of those surveyed favored green burials, Sehee said.

“This is not a fringe market,” Sehee said. Two factors figure into the mix, he said: legacy and en vironmental conservation. The baby boomer generation is responsible for the green burial up surge, he said.

“This is the generation that gave us Earth Day,” he said. “It has transformed cultural milestones. It doesn’t do things the way their parents did them.”

Sehee predicted that green burials one day will be the norm.

Concerns about un embalmed bodies and groundwater pollution are unfounded, he said. More pollution is caused by toxic paint on caskets or by vaults that leak embalming fluids into the ground, he said.

Plus, he said, green burials are cheaper; maybe not as cheap as cremation, but a lot less expensive than conventional funerals in which bodies are embalmed and buried in pricey metal caskets.

Consequently, some funeral homes are resistant to the idea, Sehee said. Old school funeral direc tors see green burials as a threat to their income.

“The knee jerk reaction is that this is disruptive to their business, that it will diminish their con ventional offerings,” he said. “We say they need to prepare to serve these families or someone else will.”

Existing cemeteries need only a conditional use permit to allow green burials, he said.

The main obstacle in many areas is a lack of fully green cemeteries, said Bill Schichtel, funeral director at Heath Funeral Chapel in Lakeland. For instance, in the Lakeland area there is a ceme tery in Dunedin offers green burial plots, but only on a portion of the overall tract, he said. The nearest fully green cemetery is in the Florida Panhandle, on a nature preserve, he said.
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