Green burial as an example of emergent movement design

[jacob]

Another example to show the range that's possible in terms of emergent movement design.

The world has very different burial traditions. Here's a new (or old) one.

In case you haven't heard about so-called "green burial [movement]"---I had only heard about it in passing (haaa!)---see the following Stoa presentation for some contrast&compare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o34iLLZSECs

It allows for different motivations (see "why"-vector), e.g. saving money, completing the loops, ... and seems to follow the "4 design constraints" for robust emergence.

[chenda]

Does it mention sky buriel ?

[jacob]

Does it mention sky buriel ?

I don't think so/didn't notice. It was mostly 4ft down w/o a vault. (For those who don't know, in the US the coffin is lowered into a concrete box and then a concrete lid is put on top of it. This is apparently for the sole reason of ensuring that the lawn on top remains flat and mowable---the body decomposes anyway despite embalming, etc. As result a cemetery (or should that be a cement-ary) has a lot of concrete boxes underground. W/o a vault a new grave will have a small mound (the space the coffin takes up) which will then sink down as the coffin/body decomposes over the span of a few months).

[chenda]

Yes I don't think that happens here. Graveyards often end up metres higher than the level of the church after centuries of burials atop one another.