The myth of afterlife is carried by many religions and countries all over the world, and probably many of us have our own choices about how we would like to spend it. With rising concern for environmental issues all over, the thought of an eco-friendly burial is inspiring and fascinating. Helping those souls who wish to lead an eco-friendly afterlife are Steve Dawson of Sax-Tiedemann Funeral Home and Crematorium in Franklin Park and Scott Ahlgrim of Ahlgrim Funeral Home in Elmhurst.

The Green Burial Council, founded in 2005 aims at reducing carbon emissions, waste and use of toxic chemicals in the cemetery and funeral field. Dawson’s green burial approved by this council is into making handmade caskets out of bamboo, banana leaves or willow branches that would decompose along with the body returning to the soil. According to him, there are a lot of people insisting on a green burial for an eco-friendly life after death.

Myth or reality, the concept of an afterlife surely seems to have gone the green way. So folks, no matter if we don’t contribute much to the environment while we are alive, there seems to be an option ‘after-life’.

Via PioneerLocal