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'Green Reaper' Wants US to Be Green to the Grave

(April 22) -- Being dead as a doornail is apparently no excuse for not being concerned with the environment. That's why one mortician in Boring, Ore., is taking it upon herself to tell her customers how they can spend eternity without harming Earth -- by creating urns out of their leftover laundry lint. She's Elizabeth...

Artist Dying to Have Your Cremated Ashes

(April 20) -- If you're dying to support the arts, an artist in Tempe, Ariz., would love to hear from you. Especially if you have some ashes of a beloved family member you can spare. That's because Daniel Ortega is an artist who specializes in ashwork, a medium that mixes "cremains" -- or cremated remains -- with stone,...

Background on cremains

Cremation is the use of high-temperature burning, vaporization, and oxidation to reduce dead animal bodies, including human ones, to basic chemical compounds, such as gases and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.

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