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| C.O. and Laura Wilkerson made it clear they wanted simple burials when they died | David Schroeder is from Augusta, Ga. His master's thesis at North Carolina State University is on ecologically sustainable cemeteries. Schroeder said embalming is a hazard because toxic fluids can leak from graves and pollute ground water. | |
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Mary Woodsen is working in the Finger Lakes region in New York to start a memorial nature preserve. | ||
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Tiffany Smith of San Francisco - will finish an MBA in Environmental Entrepreneurship in May 2003 with a focus on ways to eliminate toxins, preserve open space, and bring people closer to the natural world by transforming burial and cremation trends - reduction of all hazardous methods of dealing with death, not just in the realm of ecosystems health but in the realm of air quality as well psychological health. | ||