This week on the podcast Kelly and I talk to undertaker, funeral home owner and author of The Green Burial Guidebook Elizabeth Fournier. Elizabeth, known affectionately as the “Green Reaper,” owns and operates Cornerstone Funeral Services in Boring, Oregon (we’re not making that up). She serves on the Advisory Board for the Green Burial Council. You can find her online at the Green Reaper.  During the podcast we discuss:

• What is a green burial?
• The legality of green burial in the United States
• What’s wrong with a modern funeral?
• National Home Funeral Alliance
• Cremation vs. green burial
• Water cremation (alkaline hydrolysis)
• Burial at sea
• Green burial grounds

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