There is a new movement know as "Green Burials" where one is buried without emabalming or virutally indestructable vaults and caskets. It has been around in England for awhile but now several private cemeteries in the US are popping up including one not far from me in Texas.
Check out
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3947912&p1=0
Cemeteries all have one thing in common, folks are just dying to get in
