Forest rangers across the Rocky Mountains are grappling with new intruders; memorials to the dead. http://denverpost.com/ci_6788367
It seems that as cremation becomes more popular Public Land is being used a place to dispose of ashes and erect a memorial to the dead.
Nature lovers see the mountains as a place of healing, of freedom. And a place to put tawdry plastic flowers and shrines.
I was especially concerned at the practice of scattering human ashes from airplanes. Apparently there is no prohibition on polluting the air we breath with human ashes scattered from airplanes.
What do others think of this?
-- The only time we see the middle of the road is as we run from side to side. R.O.Clark
Posts: 3959 | Location: Santa Fe | Registered: 11 June 2003
i personally dont see a problem with it. natural things like volcanic eruptions and forest fires emmit alot more ash than human ashes.
i would also wish to be cremated. however, instead of being scattered all over, i would like my ashes used in a concrete mixture to create an artificial reef.
this way, im helping the environment by creating new habitat long after i pass. my immediate family will also be given the priviledge of getting the GPS location to a future awesome fishing hole.
------------------------------------------ debating conservatives is easy. so easy, even a caveman can do it!
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Posts: 1614 | Location: ft myers florida area | Registered: 23 September 2006
I wouldn't like to breath in ashes dropped from an overhead plane. Returning minerals to the mountain soil...no problem.
Sticking my remains into a wooden box six feet under seems like a last act of selfishness to me. Not even letting the planet have in return what it so generously provided me with for my lifetime on earth.
I certainly won't need this abode anymore. Let it be of use to other life. Just don't drop me from a plane and cause someone to choke to death.
Being fed to a bear or vulture would be o.k., but my relatives won't go for it and the state wouldn't like it. My church would frown upon it.
I'll probably end up on monastery grounds feeding a plant which will in turn feed bugs which will in turn feed birds whose droppings will feed the tomatoes, and I'll be put into a salad and be served up at a church social. That's o.k. too.
And life goes on.
Retired Monk "Ideology is a disease"
Posts: 3412 | Location: denver co | Registered: 17 April 2007
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