HW 52 - Third Third of the COTD Book

Precies:

As means of progressing into a greener world it may be helpful to look back in to some practices a eighty eight year old man recalls doing in the early parts of the last century. He reminisces about using a plain pine box as a casket for his grandmothers funeral. This practice of using a simple pine box is far more eco-friendly than the modern traditions of using inbalming fluids and processed wood for caskets. 

Quotes:

"it doesn't take me two minuets to walk down from the house to the little private cemetery where Sharyn is buried. But her body is inert matter; it's not her. But her memory is there, my memory for her is there, and that is the last place we saw each other. For me, it's a comfort to have her close by."

(harris, 243)