Would You Be Buried In a Basket Casket?

I saw on the news last week where the cool trendy sustainable thing to do after you die is to be buried in an eco-friendly container. This is basically a basket. It’s a basket casket. Unlike those pretty wood numbers that are not only creepy, but also take up valuable land space and natural resources, the basket casket decomposes right along with your rotting corpse. You can even be put to rest in a ‘natural setting’, a woodland happy land with a stone marker, or maybe just a tree to designate where your earthly body returned to the dirt.

What about cremation? I like the idea of being sprinkled somewhere, and cemetaries are so last century. We are a mobile society, no? Until I saw the basket casket report, I had assumed creamation was the way to go. But now they’re saying it takes resources to burn a body. And something about toxins released into the air. Yeesh.

We have really big storm drains on our street. Would that be green?