EOC 185: The Green Reaper

September 25, 2019

Imagine if when you die, the immediate legacy you pass to your family wasn’t a bill, but a precious gift of yourself back to the earth?

Our guest on this installation of the Eyes on Conservation podcast has not only seen the profit-driven side of death, but was able to break free of something she saw as misleading, opportunistic, and ultimately serving the needs of neither the mourners, nor the deceased. Elizabeth Fournier is the owner and Funeral Director of Cornerstone Funeral Services, an institution dedicated to reducing the unnecessary costs of funeral services, restoring monetary and ecological justice to clients, the deceased, and planet Earth, by offering the greenest practices possible when laying loved ones to rest. Her paradoxically radical and refreshingly simple methods have led her closest family and friends to dub her, The Green Reaper.

For more information about the ultimate gift of going green, visit Elizabeth Fournier at www.cornerstonefuneral.com.

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Music in today’s show by Blue Dot Sessions, with a beautiful intro hymm by Edward MacHugh, all VIA Creative Commons Licensing.

Sources:

Cornerstone Funeral Services

https://www.cornerstonefuneral.com/

“It’s gotten a whole lot more expensive to die in America”

https://www.businessinsider.com/funeral-costs-burial-caskets-prices-inflation-2017-10

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