{"id":8889,"date":"2025-10-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=8889"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:00:00","slug":"listen-green-goodbyes-choosing-an-eco-friendly-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=8889","title":{"rendered":"Listen: Green Goodbyes: Choosing an Eco-Friendly Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cremation has become Americans\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1aDjeaQkCG5KVxSAsKT2MOFznrZ13qJFT\/view?usp=sharing\">most popular choice<\/a> for the postmortem treatment of their bodies. But the process involves burning fossil fuels, which may release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0045653522025188\">toxic gases<\/a>. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/topics\/the-new-old-age\/\">The New Old Age<\/a>\u201d columnist Paula Span appeared on WAMU\u2019S Oct. 8 \u201cHealth Hub\u201d to explain some of the more environmentally friendly alternatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/green-burials-funerals-cemeteries-human-composting-new-old-age\/\">Green burials<\/a> are gaining popularity as an affordable, eco-friendly alternative to traditional funerals. They avoid toxic embalming chemicals, steel caskets, and concrete vaults, letting a body naturally decompose. Methods range from the elaborate \u2014 like \u201chuman composting\u201d and water cremation \u2014 to a simple pine box.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/topics\/the-new-old-age\/\">The New Old Age<\/a>\u201d columnist Paula Span appeared on WAMU\u2019s Oct. 8 \u201cHealth Hub\u201d to talk about the environmental and economic motivations behind these alternatives to conventional burials.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jackson Sinnenberg contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/osteoporosis-men-risk-aging-column\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cremation has become Americans\u2019 most popular choice for the postmortem treatment of their bodies. But the process involves burning fossil fuels, which may release toxic gases. \u201cThe New Old Age\u201d columnist Paula Span appeared on WAMU\u2019S Oct. 8 \u201cHealth Hub\u201d to explain some of the more environmentally friendly alternatives. Green burials are gaining popularity as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}