“When doctors and undertakers meet they always wink at each other.”

W.C. Fields (1880 – 1946)

Around 1 million folk are cremated and over 3 gallons of embalming fluid per person used. That’s an awful lot of vaporized formaldehyde released into the environment.

What other environmental concerns are there?

The EPA estimates that, in 2005, about 3,000 kilograms of mercury was released into the environment by cremations, mostly into the air.........

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