Frank Siciliano suggests that Rockaway Quarry's nice, flat open space would make a great green cemetery. In support of this idea, he sends along this commentary from the July/August print issue (not available online) of RealMoney, the CO-OP AMERICA newsletter: "The burial places are not marked with a large headstone, but only with a small marker, or a tree, or sometimes nothing at all, with only GPS (Global Positioning System) coordinates shared with the family so they can find the spot. And the land containing the burial ground is protected from development or other damage by a land trust or easement that ensures that the natural landscape will be preserved in perpetuity. The revenue from burials can be used to purchase more land for the trust as it becomes available, advancing conservation one acre at a time."
.......I forgot to mention potential feedstock for bio-diesel.
Posted by: mike bell | September 07, 2008 at 03:44 PM
I think this is a great idea! Why should Colma be the only economically viable Necropolis on the peninsula? Let's push this idea to the GGNRA as a way of maintaining all of the scenic land and trails that Pacifica has given to them. They could sell trail and plot maps with local advertising on the back. Then let's push HPD to sell ocean view plots drilled into the sides of the hills (GPS marked plots only and no coffins unless they're bio-degradable). We could even sell permits for funeral pyres which would make bonfires legal once again on Pacifica's beaches. Fundraising groups could sell marshmellows and S'mores making paraphernalia instead of fireworks.
Posted by: mike bell | September 07, 2008 at 03:36 PM
And the city could make money selling flowers for people to set near the gravestones.
Posted by: Sue Vaterlaus | September 06, 2008 at 09:35 PM