Forget the casket: This burial technology could turn your body into dust

Grist
By Katie HerzogMar 1, 2016, 6:58 pm48 pts
Not long ago, the only options for dealing with human remains were burial, cremation, or convincing loved ones to illicitly send you out to sea on a burning funeral pyre. Ecologically, these options are far from ideal: Conventional burial leeches nasty chemicals like arsenic into the groundwater, cremation…

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