With Conservation Burials, Death Gives New Life

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By Nexus MediaNov 9, 2017, 2:33 pm357 pts
By Marlene Cimons Natural burials—where bodies are buried in the soil to allow for a hasty decomposition—have already caught on. But an Australian scientist has proposed that the concept of "dust-unto-dust" go even further. He suggests that natural burials become "conservation" burials, that is, that people…

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