{"id":87041,"date":"2019-01-25T13:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/one-in-five-americans-wants-to-live-forever"},"modified":"2019-01-25T13:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:42:24","slug":"one-in-five-americans-wants-to-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/one-in-five-americans-wants-to-live-forever","title":{"rendered":"One in five Americans wants to live forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-in-five-americans-wants-to-live-forever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it might not be quite as big a concern, the environmental impact of death care is also something Americans are paying attention to. Around four in ten (41%) Americans are somewhat or very concerned about the environmental impact of traditional burial methods.<\/p>\n<p>On a similar note, 45% agreed with the statement, \u201cPeople need to rethink the way we currently deal with \u2018death care\u2019 in regard to the environment.\u201d And 11% said that they would like to have a green burial with shrouds and biodegradable material after they die.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/could-funeral-future-help-heal-environment-180957953\/\">environmental impacts of a traditional burial<\/a> include embalming fluid leaking into the soil, large amounts of water being used for cemetery maintenance, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/10\/how-to-be-eco-friendly-when-youre-dead\/382120\/\">wood and metal caskets leaving behind toxic residue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/lifestyle\/articles-reports\/2019\/01\/22\/americans-funerals-death-burial-cremation-finance\">https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/lifestyle\/articles-reports\/2...on-finance<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it might not be quite as big a concern, the environmental impact of death care is also something Americans are paying attention to. Around four in ten (41%) Americans are somewhat or very concerned about the environmental impact of traditional burial methods. On a similar note, 45% agreed with the statement, \u201cPeople need to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87041","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}