Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Community Cemetery

[Chris ScottHanson (chris]

I think this is a great idea.  It certainly wouldn't bother me.

In fact:  I wish my parents had not chosen to be cremated.  I now  
have no where to go to "be alone" with one or the other of them, when  
I want to think, "ask them questions" etc.  They are now everywhere,  
and nowhere.

Chris

On Oct 29, 2006, at 9:22 PM, Kibuyu wrote:

> In our community, we’re considering designating a
> small part of our large open wilderness space as a
> cemetery for “green burials”  i.e. where members could
> be buried in simple biodegradable coffins and without
> permanent markers.  Two cutting-edge concepts there -
> DIY burials without middlemen, and outside of a
> cemetery, yet it appears that both are legal in our
> state.
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> Within our community, opinion is divided. Proponents
> argue that this procedure has been the norm for most
> of the world since the dawn of mankind; death is the
> natural end of life and we should return our remains
> to the land where we live, without consuming yet more
> costly resources in our passing. Opponents say uh-oh,
> even if this is legal, it will have to be disclosed
> when houses are sold, and what will this do to our
> property values? Will it put off prospective buyers?
>
> Now, prospective cohousing buyers are not your average
> J Doe, they are people like you and me with a fair
> amount of education and tolerance and receptivity to
> unconventional ideas. So I’d like to ask you this
> question:
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> If you were about to buy a house in a new community,
> and you learned that someone had a) died in that house
> and b) been buried nearby, would that affect your
> decision or your perceived value of the house?
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> I searched your archive but could only find one short
> 1995 thread on the subject. Has anyone out there
> first-hand experience of burying neighbors in
> community land, or of trying to do so?
>
> Feel free to reply directly to me if you don’t want to
> clutter the listserve with responses, then I will
> later post a single summary of feedback received, for
> general interest.
>
> Thanks, and happy Halloween! – David B
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