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GREENPEACE PETITIONS GOVERNMENTS TO OPEN UP GRAVES

August 14 2008

Amsterdam. Netherlands – Greenpeace has announced a plan to revamp burial procedures across the modernized world. The called ‘Green Bury’ was announced today and will be presented to governments throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, China, and South Korea, as well as the United Nations.

The plan calls for governments to prohibit burials and move towards more natural ways of disposing of the deceased. Some of the proposed methods of disposal include ‘shredding’ and ‘composting’. The proposal also declares a need to excavate existing gravesites to comply with the new processes.

“Traditional methods of body disposal are severely detrimental to the environment. Chemicals are injected into bodies, which eventually seep into the water table.  Harmful metals and other materials from caskets are left to break down and decay, leeching into the soil and causing untold harm to the environment,” said a spokesperson for the group. “We are not proposing people stop mourning their loved ones, but simply changing the way they do it. The people are, after all, dead, what do they care?”

The proposal of course is coming as a shock to most, with reactions ranging from disgust to anger even from seasoned government officials.

“It is ludicrous that an organization such as Greenpeace would propose such a thing,” said Jacqueline Cramer, Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning for the Netherlands. “It’s a monstrous idea to propose digging up the deceased and destroying their bodies. I understand the sentiment behind the proposal, but that doesn’t justify such barbaric ideas. I can tell you right now that I would oppose any such suggestion if it were tabled in our parliament.”

Greenpeace for its part says it expected a harsh reaction, and if the normally lax officials of the Netherlands have had such a harsh reaction, more conservative governments are likely to have an even more aggressive reaction to the proposal. The organization is sticking to the plan.

“We will petition the UN, we believe that this is of fundamental importance to future sustainability. There are more people alive today than there ever has been in the history of the world combined, and we are only increasing the population. All these people are going to die someday and we need somewhere to put the bodies.”

Reactions from people on the street have been just as violent, with some even comparing to proposal to Nazis burning corpses of dead prisoners.

“This is nothing like that. We want to send people back to the Earth. We have an ongoing fuel crisis and burning bodies would only exacerbate that. Simply put, we need to plan for the future and this is part of that planning. Like it or not the bodies are going to start piling up.”

The organization has not said when they will be issuing the proposal to the United Nations. It should be noted as well that the proposal does not address how governments would pay for infrastructure changes, specifically exhumation and giant shredding machines.

Emil Uliya, International Correspondent

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