Link: To Casket Or Not To Casket?
**[One Of America's Great Field Biologists Thinks About Burial](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112894124&ft=1&f=1001)**
by Robert Krulwich
This is a sexton, or burying beetle. It’s a little critter, about the size of a bumble bee, and it can (and will, with the help of a mate) take that much bigger and very dead shrew and get it very quickly underground.
Freeze Me, Blast Me, Shatter Me
>He says that there are already companies trying to serve the Get-Me-In-The-Ground-Where-I-Can-Be-Recycled market, including a service called “promession.” I’d never heard of promession. I bet you haven’t either. It’s a new service, where they flash freeze you when you die and then hit you with an ultrasound wave that shatters you into little pieces — like broken pellets of glass from a crushed auto window so can be scattered wherever your family pleases.
