What to Do with Yourself After You Die?

​Do you know there are:

• 81 million board feet of hardwood caskets,
• 1.26 million tons of steel 
• 2,700 tons of copper & bronze 
• 14,000 tons of steel vaults, and
• 1,636,000 tons of concrete

—buried in the US each year?

Read this article from The Conversation for some alternative ideas.

Life after death: Americans are embracing new ways to leave their remains

What do you want to happen to your remains after you die?
For the past century, most Americans have accepted a limited set of options without question. And discussions of death and funeral plans have been taboo.

That is changing. As a scholar of funeral and cemetery law, I’ve discovered that Americans are becoming more willing to have a conversation about their own mortality and what comes next and embrace new funeral and burial practices.
​Read on...