Climate Change and Green Burial

The article presents the author's views on her experience of going on a retreat at the Sisters of Loretto Motherhouse and Retreat Center in Kentucky, highlighting the community's proposal for green burial to preserve their land for wildlife including migratory birds. The internment of bodi...

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Main Author: Clayville, Kristel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2016
In: Cross currents
Year: 2016, Volume: 66, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-41
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Climatic change / Funeral / Environmentally friendly
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CH Christianity and Society
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
Further subjects:B eminent domain
B MIGRATORY birds
B Religious communities
B SUSTAINABLE disposal of dead
B Land use
B Spiritual retreats
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Summary:The article presents the author's views on her experience of going on a retreat at the Sisters of Loretto Motherhouse and Retreat Center in Kentucky, highlighting the community's proposal for green burial to preserve their land for wildlife including migratory birds. The internment of bodies on land reportedly changes the property's status which makes it harder for the government to use it under eminent domain, thereby preserving it for wildlife.
ISSN:1939-3881
Contains:Enthalten in: Cross currents
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/cros.12172