Liz Austin, Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS — George Russell believes in ashes to ashes, dust to dust. No embalming fluid. No airtight caskets. No steel vaults.
January 18, 2004
January 11, 2004
Seeking Harmony in a Final Return to the Land
By Julie Dunn, New York Times
BABS McDONALD of Athens, Ga., says that when death takes her, there will be no reason for her family to spring for an expensive coffin and elaborate headstone.
“What do I need it for at that point?” said Ms. McDonald, 50, an environmental educator for the Forest Service. “I don’t even want a cardboard box. I want my body to give back to the earth. It is supposed to decompose and nourish the earth, become food for all the microorganisms.”