Burial vs Cremation, Environmental Impact
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, hydro...