With COVID restrictions temporarily lifted, many people have gone on holidays, including me. As a result, we are rebroadcasting our most popular episode, A Beginner’s Guide to the End, with Sita Then and Madeline Christie.

While I’ve entirely given up on the idea of being embalmed and buried—because of the poor environmental impacts in that process—I’ve never been terribly onboard with cremation, either. For one thing, there’s the air pollution from the cremation process to contend with. And what about mercury from our dental fillings and the various bionic parts we acquire over the years, when body parts stop working properly? Lots of non-green things to consider.
Madeline, and Sita are going to share a third option—a very green one—and one that gives me shivers in the best possible way! 

Has this made you curious about green burials? Contact your local town council and funeral parlour to let them know. For more information on Green Burials check out community death care canada; end of life doula association of canada; greenburialCanada.ca; greenburialbc.ca. To lobby for alkaline hydrolysis in your community visit change.org and search for bringalkalinehydrolysistobc. I also want to give a shout out to Cathy Valentine on Salt Spring Island for her terrific contribution to the recent BC workshop called A Beginner’s Guide to Green Burials. 

This episode was originally aired on June 21, 2021.