Current：Home > InvestThe growing industry of green burials -Wealth Impact Academy
The growing industry of green burials
View
Date：2025-04-25 09:52:44
One estimate says 2.4 million people die in the U.S. each year, and burying them is expensive: a typical burial can cost about $10,000. That's a lot of money, caskets, and plots filling up cemeteries.
But...what if there was a cost-effective option to bury people, one that was good for the Earth and your pocket book? Today, we look at the prices and features of sustainable burials.
Related episodes:
The Death Show
The Plight Of The Living Dead
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.
veryGood！ (295)
Related
- Juan Soto to be introduced by Mets at Citi Field after striking record $765 million, 15
- What is Super Tuesday and how does tomorrow's voting work?
- Trump tried to crush the 'DEI revolution.' Here's how he might finish the job.
- Brothers Travis and Jason Kelce honored with bobblehead giveaway at Cavs-Celtics game
- New Mexico governor seeks funding to recycle fracking water, expand preschool, treat mental health
- US Postal Service plans to downsize a mail hub in Nevada. What does that mean for mail-in ballots?
- Sam Asghari opens up about Britney Spears divorce, says he'll never 'talk badly' about her
- Jack Teixeira pleads guilty to leaking hundreds of highly classified Pentagon documents
- Residents worried after ceiling cracks appear following reroofing works at Jalan Tenaga HDB blocks
- Deleted emails of late North Dakota attorney general recovered amid investigation of ex-lawmaker
Ranking
- Rolling Loud 2024: Lineup, how to stream the world's largest hip hop music festival
- Mike Evans, Buccaneers agree to two-year contract ahead of NFL free agency
- Father pleads guilty to manslaughter in drowning death of son
- US sanctions Zimbabwe president Emmerson Mnangagwa over human rights abuses
- Residents worried after ceiling cracks appear following reroofing works at Jalan Tenaga HDB blocks
- Teenager dead, 4 other people wounded in shooting at Philadelphia bus stop, police say
- Photos show humpback whale washed up on Virginia Beach: Officials to examine cause of death
- How does Selection Sunday work? What to know about how March Madness fields are selected
Recommendation
Person accused of accosting Rep. Nancy Mace at Capitol pleads not guilty to assault charge
You Won't Believe What Sparked This Below Deck Guest's Drunken Meltdown
'American Idol' contestant tearfully sings in Albanian after judges FaceTime his mom
John Oliver says Donald Trump prosecution is as 'obvious' as Natasha Lyonne being Batman
Where will Elmo go? HBO moves away from 'Sesame Street'
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants
New Hampshire man who triggered Amber Alert held without bail in death of his children’s mother
Air Force employee charged with sharing classified info on Russia’s war with Ukraine on dating site