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Did you know we bury enough metal in caskets each year to build a new Golden Gate Bridge? You\u2019re living your life trying to be green. Have you given any thought to the impact of the way you exit the planet? What\u2019s your final act? In this episode we explore how to exit gracefully, with a lighter footprint.

Funeral director Elizabeth Fournier is known as the \u201cgreen reaper,\u201d for her and work to make information about \u201cgoing green,\u201d as your last heroic act of volunteerism, readily available to the public. Families can feel pressure, sometimes of their own making, to send someone off in high style. Fournier\u2019s book, The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial, is a practical guide that can help you make decisions that are lighter on the planet, and happen to reduce funeral and burial costs.

She owns and operates Cornerstone Funeral Services in the small town of Boring, Oregon. But we can promise you this episode is anything but boring.

LINKS:

The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial

Cornerstone Funeral Services (includes excellent green burial resources)

Why a \u2018Green\u2019 Burial is Best for the Environment

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