Dairy Farm Performing Cremations - Got Milk?

[matcom]

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GUILFORD, Vt. (AP) -- Just up the hill from the Gaines family's dairy farm stands a small building housing a different sort of enterprise, one that the operators hope will provide personalized service -- for the recently deceased.

Jim and Ellen Curley say their new venture, a human crematory, is a small family business that will provide options to the community and will help the Gaines' seventh-generation dairy farm survive.

"I view it as a service to my generation and the older generation," said Jim Curley, 54. "We're a low-volume small scale operation with a beautiful setting."

About 40 percent of Vermonters choose cremation, according to the Funeral Consumers Alliance, a national trade group based in South Burlington. Nationally, the figure is 25 percent.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2004/03/16/dairy_farm_home_to_cremation_business/

[ClintonTyree]

1. That's the way............

I want it handled too. John Prine......please don't bury me, down in that cold, cold ground, I'd rather have them cut me up and pass me all around, throw my brain in a hurricane, the blind can have my eyes, and the deaf can take both my ears, if they don't mind the size. Give my feet to the footloose, careless fancy free, give my knees to the needy, don't pull that stuff on me, hand me down my walkin' cane, it's a sin to tell a lie, send my mouth, way down south and kiss my ass goodbye. EVERYBODY NOW, Please don't bury me, down in that cold, cold ground............. sorry I got a little carried away.

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. not me

I want to be in a glass case like Lenin, and used as a coffee table.

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