ELIZABETH FOURNIER on a Green Afterlife /90

Our conversation today is with Elizabeth Fournier, who has worked seven generations in the funeral industry, focusing on green burial and rethinking the way we bury our dead. What is the relationship between the civil war and our funerial industrial complex? What is the impact of putting our dead, and now toxic, bodies in to the earth? What are the environmental concerns of cremation? How can our deaths contribute positively to the regeneration of our earth? Elizabeth Fournier, affectionately called “The Green Reaper,” is the author of The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial. Find out more about her work at www.thegreenreaper.org. Music by Anne Laplantine & Kevin Macleod