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From: "Karla Everett" <>
Subject: Re: [CA-HISTORY] ENVIRONMENTALLY CORRECT CEMETERY................
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:55:35 -0700
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Now, this I might go for! I was in the 6th grade when I read "The American
Way of Death" and knew from that time that I would be cremated. Since I've
begun the family research I've seen the importance of a stone. Maybe a
little round white rock with my name on it?
Karla

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From: "carolyn" <>
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Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:01 AM
Subject: [CA-HISTORY] ENVIRONMENTALLY CORRECT CEMETERY................


> The state's first environmentally correct cemetery will open soon in
> Marin County, offering sanctuary for both the living and the dead.
>
> The site will ban embalming fluids, tombstones and metal caskets.
> Instead, the dead can be buried in a wooden box, a shroud, a favorite
> blanket or nothing at all. Graves may be hand-dug by mourners. Native
> rocks and plants will be used as grave markers.
>
> The 32-acre ``memorial nature preserve,'' perched on a hillside with
> views of Mount Tamalpais, is on the forefront of the nation's ``green
> burial'' movement, striving to save land as it creates human
> compost..............
>
> The Marin County site is the former Daphne Fernwood Cemetery, a historic
> but down-at-the-heels spot. Broken concrete slabs, tilting headstones
> and dark woods create a spooky mood. Graves date to the 1880s, holding
> early settlers with ties to the long-gone Sausalito Land & Ferry Co.
> Under the new management, the existing graves will remain.
>
>
> The state of California does not require that dead people be embalmed or
> put in caskets. It requires that people be buried at least 18 inches
> deep, according to the state Cemetery and Funeral Bureau. Graves should
> be an appropriate distance from moving water, depending on the hydrology
> of the site.
>
> the complete article here........
> http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/8824352.htm
>
>

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