{"id":775,"date":"2009-10-27T20:03:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T01:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=775"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:47","slug":"go-green-in-the-hereafter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/27\/go-green-in-the-hereafter\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Green in the Hereafter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to be as eco-friendly as possible and you want to plan ahead, consider a <a href=\"http:\/\/dewey.waubonsee.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=aph&amp;AN=26378703&amp;site=ehost-live\">green burial option<\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-777\" href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/27\/go-green-in-the-hereafter\/grave-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-777\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Grave-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Grave-3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Grave-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Grave-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Grave-3.JPG 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>. Some <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalburial.org\/\">cemeteries<\/a> now offer green options and do not use embalmment, entomb- ment or non-biodegradable materials. Consider a minimal casket or cloth shroud. Or cremated remains can be mixed with ashes and formed into a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/eternalreefs.com\/\">honeycombed igloo<\/a>&#8221; which becomes a sea-creature habitat when sunk onto an established reef. As Billy Campbell, MD of\u00c2\u00a0 Ramsey Creek natural cemetary says, &#8220;We work to reincorporate the dead into the trees and flowers, catching them up in the cycles of life and death, decomposition and rebirth, that sustain us all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to be as eco-friendly as possible and you want to plan ahead, consider a green burial option. Some cemeteries now offer green options and do not use embalmment, entomb- ment or non-biodegradable materials. Consider a minimal casket or cloth shroud. Or cremated remains can be mixed with ashes and formed into a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/27\/go-green-in-the-hereafter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Go Green in the Hereafter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1,4],"tags":[62,32,61],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","category-information","category-library-display","tag-eco-burial","tag-environment","tag-green-burial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}