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  Green Remains

  Feb 12, 2020

  The spiritual and secular afterlives of bodies

  Dead bodies create dilemmas. Whether or not you believe in a soul and its afterlife, we all—saints, secularists, and spiritual seekers alike—have to cope with corpses.

  The body itself has its own afterlife, its own place in the world, and these days there is a staggering array of ways to take care of the dead body. As climate change has become a greater threat, many new funerary practices have turned to so-called green burials, environmentally sustainable modes of laying the dead to rest. Such burials enable people to have afterlives by returning their bodies into the cycle of nature in a gentler way than most modern methods have allowed.

  [Read the rest at Spiral Magazine]

  Listen to the related podcast: "The Ritual of Remains" at Religion News Service, Beliefs

   

  Tags: soul, Death, secularism, afterlife, green burials, environmentalism

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