CW, over at the Ruminations blog, posts an illustration of how different cultural norms can clash. It’s the sand in the global machine.

Another post about graveyards – but for ships this time. Geoff Manaugh posts some striking photos by Edward Burtynsky over at BLDBLOG and ponders the fate of ships and cathedrals – and the human worker ants who toil in their recycling.

There’s an article by Claire Rayner in The Observer today about the choices open to her about her burial.  It’s got me thinking. Like her, I had assumed that cremation would be my obvious choice. But she does have a point about the waste of fossil fuel and the greenhouse gases. And like her, I certainly don’t want to end up in a religious cemetery. 

 

Perhaps the answer is freeze-drying and being turned into compost – as I reported a couple of months ago. But I’m sure the freezing process is not particularly energy efficient.

 

Claire mentions natural burial as the green alternative – and I’ve discovered there is a natural burial ground in The Netherlands in the Bergerbos near Sint Odilienberg.  The Bergerbos looks to be a beautiful area, and I certainly wouldn’t object to being buried there. Just so long as there’s not a piece of the ghastly public art that the Dutch seem to go in for in the near vicinity. Such as that awful butterfly in the 13th photo on the web site. The woods themselves are all I would wish for.