{"id":175289,"date":"2023-11-01T14:29:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T19:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/alternative-funeral-options-are-changing-how-we-honor-our-dead"},"modified":"2023-11-01T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T19:29:09","slug":"alternative-funeral-options-are-changing-how-we-honor-our-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/alternative-funeral-options-are-changing-how-we-honor-our-dead","title":{"rendered":"Alternative funeral options are changing how we honor our dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alternative-funeral-options-are-changing-how-we-honor-our-dead2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When someone dies in the US, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nfda.org\/news\/statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vast majority<\/a> of the time, their body is either embalmed, placed in a coffin, and buried in a cemetery, or <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/thinking\/cremation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cremated<\/a> and the ashes returned to their loved ones in an urn \u2014 but those aren\u2019t the only options.<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of funeral directors, startups, and nonprofits are providing people with alternative ways to have their bodies honored after death \u2014 suggesting that the funeral landscape of tomorrow won\u2019t be so binary.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional burial and cremation has a cost for the environment, releasing <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1023\/A:1005186919370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chemicals<\/a> into the ground or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/is-cremation-environmentally-friendly-heres-the-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">greenhouse gasses<\/a> into the air, but a number of other funeral options are showing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/science\/life-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">death<\/a> can be green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone dies in the US, the vast majority of the time, their body is either embalmed, placed in a coffin, and buried in a cemetery, or cremated and the ashes returned to their loved ones in an urn \u2014 but those aren\u2019t the only options. A growing number of funeral directors, startups, and nonprofits [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}