But it annually doses the soil in the United States with more than 800,000 gallons of toxic embalming fluids. In the United States, inadvertently naturalistic cemeteries are a major reason that a vestige survives of the prairies that once covered the Midwest. White Eagle Memorial Preserve Cemetery in Washington is just 20 acres, but it adjoins 1,100 acres of permanently protected oak and ponderosa forests. Classical mythology had Charon leading the dead across the River Styx and a three-headed dog named Cerberus guarding the entrance to the underworld. How would you like to dead?

Source: New York Times July 07, 2017 07:18 UTC