An east Tennessee burial preserve goes back to the basics by offering a "simpler, more natural" way of burying the dead -- no casket, no embalming and no cost.
Five years later, Tennessee established Narrow Ridge as a community cemetery, and it has operated as such ever since. It's not like most cemeteries out there. It's a "green" cemetery, which its operators say means people buried there can't be embalmed or placed in a casket.
"When people died, they had home funerals and buried them within 26-36 hours and in a natural way," Bill Nickle told WVLT. "There was no embalming. There was no metal casket, no concrete vaults, and that was the way it was."
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"When I die don't bury me
ReplyDeleteIn a box in a cemetery
Out in the garden would be much better
I could be pushin' up homegrown tomatoes"
"Homegrown Tomatoes" --Guy Clark
--Ron W
That's a good one!
DeleteI fell the same way, funeral and burial practices today are an abomination. Either cremate me or bury me in a hole with no casket or vaults. It does not spoil the ecology of the burial area.
ReplyDeleteInteresting in that I woke up in the middle of the night and decided to have my helper Susan, make my casket! I put my tombstone down 18 years ago and since I have an existing family graveyard, 1823 is the first burial as I remember, just dig a hole. When I laid the tombstone down
Deletethey told me it would be about $5K but I called them recently and they said it is much more now.
That's a good reason to purchase a pre burial arrangement. I had to do that as a conservator for a disabled cousin. When he passed, the funeral home that handled his funeral and burial handed me a $2000+ check for his estate that it had gained in value just after a few years. --Ron W
DeleteI blew that one. :)
Delete5K for what? Can't a hole be dug and lay the casket in it and
ReplyDeletecover with dirt?
No money in that. That was their cheapest wooden coffin and cheapest burial vault that would seal plus..........
DeleteGet a carpenter to make one. Who cares about the seal.
DeleteBilly Graham's wife had a simple wooden coffin made for
her burial just like the old days.
You can make them yourself. There are diagrams and you can even get them in kit form.
DeleteKit? Diagrams? It's a wooden box. A box you intend to bury and never see again. It's literally impossible to do it wrong unless it is for a 600 pound cadaver.
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Naw, more work but give it some style. :)
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