1/7/2024 0 Comments Pyre backgroundIt is not a coincidence that Crestone is the pyre’s home. “They build up creepy ideas about what it could be.” “Folks who haven’t had direct experience of open-air cremation, whether it’s in Colorado or in Asia, can have some pretty strange associations,” said Angela Lutzenberger, a hospice chaplain who bought 63 acres of land in Dresden, Maine, that she hopes to turn into a pyre site. A body on the pyre turns into ash and smoke while friends and family keep vigil for hours under the open sky. But Crestone’s approach goes even further, defying one of traditional cremation’s core promises, to make the body disappear quickly and invisibly. More than half of Americans are cremated after death, a remarkable change from the 20th century, when it was “completely against American sensibilities,” said Gary Laderman, a professor in the department of religion at Emory University. But it has a name - and a dramatic story - all its own.
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