Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Green funerals bring back old ideas

Some regard cemeteries as tranquil anterooms to the afterlife. Others see them as hazardous-waste sites, full of chemically treated wood and steel caskets, formaldehyde embalming fluid and concrete burial vaults.

The grass could be much greener on the other side. . .

By William Loeffler, TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, February 9, 2009