-One of the oldest Environmental policies
Saying goodbye to a loved one is one of the hardest things to do in life. Many families want to assure that their loved one is buried the best and most honoring way. Many people burry their loved one in ways that may not be environmentally friendly. People do not step back and take into consideration what harmful affects it may have on the environment. From the extravagant coffins to the abomination of the body, which later on leaks out of the body and into the ground, leading to the pipes surrounding the crave yard. The question remains do people realize what affects theses may have on the rest of the living population.
In Islam the way the dead are buried is for the most part environmentally friendly. Since the beginning of Islam in 610 CE, Muslims have been burying their dead the same way according to the ways called upon by Islam. There are many steps and procedures taken when Muslims prepare their dead and put them to rest. I will continue and give details about the burial process and explain how it relates to environmental policy.
1. Muslims do not embalm their dead; they clean the body and stuff all the discharge areas to prevent any leakage of bodily fluids. With abomination there is a risk of the fluids, which contain formaldehyde, leaking into the pipes once the body has dried out; which then may leak into the drinking water pipes. And the people who live around the grave yard maybe at risk if they drink the water for these pipes. Muslims bathe the dead and after wrapping them they spry Rose water on the body to keep it smelling good for a while; giving time to the family to bury the body.
2. Muslims do not bury their dead in coffins. Coffins are not environmentally friendly because of the trees that are chopped down in order to make the coffins with. Also the different kinds of metals that are used to make the handles of the coffin. The venire and paint that is used on coffins is contains chemical substances. The vault that the coffin is put in, which is made of steel that is derived from metal also contains chemicals in it to be able to make steel. And iron all of these parts that come together to make the coffin are for the most part not good for the environment. For Muslims when the body is ready to be taken to the grave site they place the body on a body stretcher. Once they get to the grave site they lay the body straight on in the ground with nothing other than natural dirt underneath the body. They place the body straight into the ground; nothing is to be mad for the body to be placed into or to be carried in.
3. Muslims also do not place head stones on the grave site of the dead. They only place a simple rock with the number of the row and column engraved on it to be able to identify the resting place of that body. This is in comparison to having large head stones that are made of either granite or marble. Marble and granite are made out of minerals and rocks that require a combination of chemicals to be able to make them. All which do not help the environment infact it only harms the environment.
