'Today We Are His Family': Teen Volunteers Mourn Those Who Died Alone

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4. In the garden please!

Every year, Americans who bury relatives in coffins commit to the ground an amount of metal sufficient to construct a new Golden Gate Bridge, wood that could be used to build 1,800 single-family homes and an amount of carcinogenic embalming fluid adequate for filling eight Olympic-size pools, Spade estimates.

Cremations emit 600 million pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually — the fossil fuel equivalent of 70,000 cars driving for a full year, she notes.

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