life everlasting

Turning Death Into Life... Author:  Bernd Heinrich What happens to us when we die?  I’m not talking about heaven, hell or some other kind of afterlife; I’m talking about what happens to our bodies, our flesh and bones.  For millennia, humans have struggled to disrupt the normal decomposition that follows death, whether through embalmment, burial, cremation or mummification.  In recent years, however, there’s been a growing movement in favor of “green” burials that eschew all the technological trappings of mortuary science, allowing one’s body to naturally return to the ecosystem of which we’re all a part.  Prompted by a friend’s [...]