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When I wrote about a Green Burial Expo in California, asking if green burials could be fun, one commenter worried that we were perpetuating the notion that sustainable funerals have to be "wacky" or offbeat.

Inventor claims his new cremation method has a low environmental impact.

At the end of an average lifetime, most folks in the developed world are responsible for producing quite a bit of waste and pollution, the problems from which many of the

Image of a traditional tombstone with an RFID tag that carries a little more personal data. Via Objecs.
Objecs is selling its Personal Rosetta Stone passive RFID-enabled data tags as an addition to a loved one's tomb stone - you can enter the person's name and choose some represetative symbols, perhaps a small epitaph via the web - then you embed the tag into a larger traditional tombstone.