Human body is bio-degradable. We should take advantage of that fact. What happens when a body is buried? The body decomposes into the soil and eventually turns into nutrients for the plants and vegetation in the graveyard. These plants also absorbs carbon dioxide and produces oxygen, which is good for the atmosphere. It is just like a process of recycling. One life stops, other life benefits from it. This is what nature intends. This had been going on since the existence of life on this planet. Somehow, every life is on the food chain. To continue the process, we should try to make everything associated with burial as bio-degradable as possible.Coffins should be made out of bio-degradable materials only.
On the other hand, when we cremate a body after death, we make sure that the cycle of life stops at that death. Cremation produces a significant amount of green house gasses as any combustion process. Emission of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury, hydrofluoric acid and other persistent organic pollutants which occurs when a body is cremated is quite harmful to the environment. Worlds population is projected to reach 10 billion by the year 2083. If cremation continues at current rate, it will make a significant contribution to global worming.
It is a good thing, we don't have to worry about cremation in the animal kingdom. It not that it does not occur. When there is a forest fire, thousands of animals are cremated and lots of trees are burnt. And there is a new trend of cremating dead pets in controlled environment. But, in general, when an animal dies in the forest, other animals and birds gets the best of it Then the insects get it. Lastly, the plants gets it through the soil where the body decomposes. It could have been a lion in an African jungle yesterday or a dinosaur millions of years ago. The same thing goes on when a fish dies in a body of water.
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