oh bury me on the lone prairie
where the dirt is soft and embraces me
to become the grass along the stream
to feed the deer in love in spring
give me a shroud, or a box of pine / c g, d g
or bury me naked, it’ll be so fine /d g
mother earth will embrace me then /g c
to decompose, then recompose again /d g
I’ll feed the earth, as she fed us all /g c
may others begin, when I do fall/ em am d
to become the eyes of meadowlark /g c
and vixen’s ears for her mate do hark /d g
and coyote’s throat that sings at night /g c
and (yellow) wings of dancing butterfly/ em am d
give me a shroud, or a box of pine / c g, d g
or bury me naked, it’ll be so fine /d g
need another “to become…” verse
with 4 more lifeforms here
so come along to my new home /g c
and be at ease, as you see me roam /d g
for the dirt has turned me you will see /g c
into bugs and leaves and critters free / em am d
give me a shroud, or a box of pine / c g, d g
or bury me naked, it’ll be so fine /d g
Bury Me Naked stele / laina corazon c12

To Whom It May Concern, From Me, Steven Eugene Ely “Stele”:
Hello Friends, When I die, I hope you will celebrate, because my other song says, *We Will Love Again*. That is, if enough of us help delay the demise of our biosphere, We Will Love Again. For more fun, Stele
I may have minor modifications of this Will hanging around on my desk or in the house somewhere, but know that this online Will supersedes and over powers all other paper versions found.
This is my official last Will and Testament ::
If I am near the end of my life or I have an illness that has less than a 40% chance to improve back to near normal, I do not want CPR.
If possible, I would prefer to be allowed to decompose on top of the soil, to be eaten by birds, coyotes, beetles, worms and bacteria, but if that does not work out, that’s ok.
If the above is a hassle, a simple cheap softwood coffin would be ok.
I prefer not to be buried in a costly metal, concrete or wood coffin.
But if my executor decides to cremate me, that’s ok. Aquamation would be preferable to cremation though.
My mother would like some of my remains to be near her in a drawer where she has arranged to have her ashes and other family members put. Therefore, if possible, once I have decomposed in or on top of the ground, I would appreciate it if someone would obtain some of my hair, pieces of bone and/or soil containing my decomposed self and put them put next to her.
Do not donate my body or organs at death, and do not use my body for transplant, therapy, research or education.
Here is my executor list. In the following order of preference empower one of these people as my executor. My preferred executor can be my son L[son] u k[son]e, sister R o [sis ster] b i n, brother D a[bro t ther] v i d, mom S a[mo mma] n d[mot her] r a, son’s wife, P a[my fr iend] u l S i[that fr iend]e g l[fr iend] e r, D a n(fr iend)i e l a W i t h(fr iend)a a r, A n d[my fr iend] rea R o [that fr iend] s e, G(f r ie nd)a i B(fr i end)r a(fr iend)d b r(fr iend)o o k [U K], or D r (ste p bro) e w . If someone does not want to be the executor the next person may assume that role.
The person I want to make care decisions for me if I can’t and I am very ill is the same as executor.
If more than one person from the preferred executor list wants a specific property item found in my house please draw from a hat to decide who gets that item.
If possible, please give at least 85% of the proceeds from selling or liquidating any of my personal property, bank balances and real estate to my favorite climate crisis fighting organizations that include the SunriseMovement, SierraClub.org, 350.org, NRDC.org, EDF.org, Greenpeace.org, Extinction Rebellion rebellion.global, and Climate Reality. The executor may decide whether to give those proceeds to just one or more than one of those organizations.
After the above proceeds are given to those environmental organization[s], the remainder is to distributed evenly to the those in the above preferred executor list.
Please keep my XOEarth.org website going by paying the XOEarth.org and XOEarth.net domain fees [probably at GoDaddy.com] and webhosting services [probably at NetworkSolutions.com]. Please keep those fees paid in advance for at least 5 years. Please have someone maintain the WordPress website and software. I would like to give the management of XOEarth.org and XOEarth.net to the people in this order of authority : D a n(fr iend)i e l a W i t h(fr iend)a a r, my son L u[son] k e, A n d[my fr iend] rea R o [that fr iend] s e, L(fr iend)u k e C o(fr iend)m er, P a u (fr iend)l s e Si eg L e(fr iend)r , R o(fr iend) g e r H a(fr iend) l l a m U K, G(f r ie nd)a i B(fr i end)r a(fr iend)d b r(fr iend)o o k U K, or D r (ste p bro) e w .
The kind of medical treatment I want or don’t want is pain meds only and no life support systems if I am very ill or near death.
When I am dying I would like to be in any of my family’s or friend’s homes if someone would like to take on this responsibility. Anyone may come to dance, sing, eat vegan food and play music.
All of my loved ones can know anything they want to know about my life that is found in my archives, writings and junk.
This Is My Legal Will, For More Love and Life, Steven Eugene Ely “Stele”
PS: This last update of my Will was done on about 8/23/2022.
Your Mama is so wet… she is covered by 75% water and she is going to drown your cute little butt if you don’t help her get people to burn less fossil fuels. Your Mama is so hot… she is losing her ocean species at such a high rate that you and I might not get to meet as manta rays when your and my atoms and molecules go flying around after we are both dead and gone as humans.
I wrote some names with spaces and stuff so they would not come up in a web search.
Resources::
A superb green burial song hook, Grave Matters, can be found in a book at Grave Matters by Environmental journalist Mark Harris.
Excerpt from Grave Matters: For all its verdant landscaping, the typical cemetery functions less like a bucolic resting ground for the dead than a landfill for the materials that infuse and encase them. Over time, the typical ten-acre swatch of cemetery ground, for example, contains enough coffin wood to construct more than 40 houses, nearly 1,000 tons of casket steel and another twenty thousand tons of vault concrete. Add to that a volume of toxic formalin nearly sufficient to fill a small backyard swimming pool and untold gallons of pesticide and weed killer used to keep the cemetery grounds preternaturally green. More info at GraveMatters.us.
Green Burial Council www.greenburialcouncil.org
The Green Burial Council is a nonprofit organization working to encourage environmental sustainability in the death care industry and the use of burial. The Green Burial Council aims to encourage sustainability in the interment industry and to use burial as a means of ecological sustainability.
Natural burial – Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_burial
Aquamation : With “alkaline hydrolysis” to dissolve bodies, also called aquamation, the body of the deceased is immersed for three to four hours in a mixture of water and a strong alkali, such as potassium hydroxide, in a pressurised metal cylinder and heated to around 150C. It is the process behind Desmond Tutu’s ‘green cremation’.
Burials and Cemeteries Go Green : NPR www.npr.org > News > Science > Environment
Environmentally friendly funerals are catching on in some areas of the U.S. as an alternative to traditional burials.
Green burials are gaining traction in the Washington area www.washingtonpost.com. green-burials
People who drive hybrids, recycle and compost can also die in an eco-friendly way: a green burial.
A dying wish to be ‘home for fish’ CNN search for dying green at cnn.com Carole Dunham, 69, loved the ocean. Last July, she was diagnosed with cancer and had only a few months to live. Dunham knew her last …
Green Burials Offer Unique, Less Costly Funerals nationalgeographic.com
From artificial reefs to outer space, alternative burial options abound. More people in the U.S. are chosing environmentally friendly burials.
Worldwide, more than 50,000,000 people pass away each year. Traditional burial and cremation practices can have significant negative on our planet’s biosphere
www.upworthy.com/the-way-doctors-think-about-death-is-pretty-different-from-the-way-their-patients-do
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