There's a green cemetery near me and it's an option, I guess. But it's still cheaper to be cremated. My late / prior wife and my son went that way, so I've kind of gotten used to it. I also like cutting out the middle man. I actually arranged my son's cremation over the Internet, and he wanted no funeral, so it was point and click. Someone claimed his body at the hospital and a few days later he fetched up on my doorstep in a plastic box, courtesy of FedEx. He's now under a magnolia tree in the back yard. Or half of him is, the rest I gave to his sister to dispose of with his mother next time they get together.

That's another benefit of cremation. My wife wanted to be scattered under an Ironwood tree where we lived at the time, but her family wanted closure so half her remains went 2,300 miles to be scattered on the family homestead, in the meadow where she rode her horse as a girl. I offered to pay for an urn / burial site at the cemetery but they opted for scattering.

My family has always been minimalist that way, my brother has always said, throw me in a plastic bag and bury me in the back yard when I go. Of course ... that's not legal, but you can come close.

Yes indeed. I just want a shroud. If it was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

I think you're allowed to increase your carbon footprint a bit at the end, considering you'll never contribute negatively toward the environment again.

Go big. Have a wooden boat fashioned, pile your treasure on, float it out on some body of water, have a guy shoot a flaming arrow through it. Have your severely burned remains wash up days later in front of a kid's sand castle. You know, the usual.

OR you could save land space and avoid cemetery fees and just get cremated, then bury the ashes in your back yard and plant a tree over them.