Cremation or Burial in the ground?
I sustect cremation is very bad-it uses energy, and produces lots of CO2. Earth burial is nicer-your carbon 9and the coffin wood) gets “sequestered’ for 80-300 years!
Do any undertakers advertise their 'crabon footprints”?
c) Blender
There is a very high rate of Adipocere in corpses burried in a casket. Especially when they are perfectly sealed. For those who don’t know it means your body turns into soap. Yuck.
Cremation: Some CO2 but it would be negligable in terms of how much it effected the environment. I say Burn baby Burn…
Yup! I’ve got my plan laid out to my family. Donate to the Anatomical Gift Society and then it’s off to the crematorium for me!
Ditto. Recycle what’s still usable (not much at the rate I’m going) and toast the rest. The wife has already made plans to have a custom Hawaiian shirt made for my urn. 
I’ve seen a trend towards eco-burials: no embalming, no sealed coffin, no headstone…just a cloth wrap and a set of GPS coordinates to guide family and friends to a location where your body is peacefully decomposing and will enrich the soil. Nature has excellent resources to dispose of our remains, let them do their job.
You can get yourself liquified legally in a process called Resomation. Supposed to use less energy in the process and you get some of the stuff back as ash. I’m guessing the rest goes into the sewer.
Yeah.
Harvest my organs, throw the leftover mush in a hole in the ground, and plant a tree in me. It’s the only way I can reproduce.
According to this page, cremating a corpse consumes something like 285 kilowatt-hours of gas and 15kWh of electricity - the generation of that electricity probably has a carbon output and according to this page, 285 kWh of gas is equivalent to approximately 1000 cubic feet of gas.
I have no idea how much CO[sub]2[/sub] is produced when that much gas is burned, but it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be negligible.
THat’s awesome. I hope she parks it prominently behind the bar. Next to a pineapple or coconut drink.
Burial at sea might be a competitive option. Similar arguments as the eco-burials gaffa mentions, but less likely to traumatize a future gardener. Wikipedia states that in the US ‘bodies can be given to the sea if the location is at least 600 feet (200 m) deep.’ That’s over 100 fathoms.
I suppose you’d also want to be mindful of currents in order to avoid washing up into a headline.
- Toilet
The sewage system is likely to be the largest biowaste disposal system in your area and is likely to be pretty green friendly. The Seattle waste system extracts all the methane and uses that to power the plant and sells all the solid waste as fertilizer. That’s greener than green.
Depends where you live, too. If soil-rich land is in short supply, then burial uses land that could otherwise be used for crops, trees, cattle, a wildlife reserve, a park, all sorts of things. I quite like graveyards, myself, but I like al those other things more.
Course, if you live in an area where land is in short supply, you might not be able to afford burial anyway.
And use solar and/or wind to power the industrial blender/meat grinder! Ladies and Gentlemen, we have our solution.
I’m donating my body to one of the two medical schools my mother was associated with, and they can throw away what they don’t use. What do I care…I’m dead.
Isn’t this sentiment contradictory to the entire Green movement?
I want to donate my body to science. Medical schools need cadavers.
When they’re done with a given piece, maybe they can incinerate it or something. (Preferably to heat the hospital or produce power? No? Whatever.)
Is that greener? I dunno; reduce reuse recycle, right?