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csziggy

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9. I'm lucky - I own sixty acres so have lots of room to plant trees

Reply to Nitram (Reply #8)

Sat Nov 17, 2018, 11:00 AM

Nov 2018

In fact when we first bought this farm 40 years ago we planted about two thousand trees. But we still have space in the pastures where we could plant another few hundred trees, LOL.

I plan to keep this place as a park after I die - just have to figure out the legal stuff to make it happen - so there would not be houses built where I am planted.

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Green Burials: At the End of Life, Thinking Outside the Coffin [View all] elleng Nov 2018 OP

I want to be a tree Lunabell Nov 2018 #1

No cremation for me, elleng Nov 2018 #2

I don't even want the pine box! csziggy Nov 2018 #6

In Austin there's a park which will bury you unenbalmed in a fabric shroud for several thousand ... marble falls Nov 2018 #3

Ditto. elleng Nov 2018 #4

You are kidding essme Nov 2018 #12

Interesting. I've always wanted to be dumped in a hole next to a tree. Nitram Nov 2018 #5

Digging next to a tree could be hard - think of all the roots! csziggy Nov 2018 #7

Excellent point, csziggy. We don't want to damage the roots of the tree we will become. Nitram Nov 2018 #8

I'm lucky - I own sixty acres so have lots of room to plant trees csziggy Nov 2018 #9

We have two acres, which is too small to place under easement with any organization I know of. Nitram Nov 2018 #10

I'm in Florida and will be working with experts csziggy Nov 2018 #11

You might want to consider body composting, Totally Tunsie May 2019 #14

Cremation for me. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2018 #13

I'v always leaned towards cremation, but that does involve a contribution of greenhouse gases. Nitram May 2019 #15