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This natural approach, proponents say, is far less damaging to the Earth because it eliminates formaldehyde, a chemical used in embalming, as well as barriers that simply delay the body's inevitable decay. The practice, which began in the United Kingdom and in recent years has spread to California and other parts of the country, recently received a boost from Pittsburgh's Roy A. Hunt Foundation. It awarded a $5,000 grant to the Green Burial Council of Santa Fe, N.M., seeking to establish a national network of funeral homes to provide green burials. Paul Henney, who operates funeral homes in Bethel Park, Mt. Lebanon and other area locations, is among those supporting green burials. He's the local contact for the Green Burial Council and said he would handle such arrangements for anyone interested.
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But I was talking to these talented Danes in the suburbs of Washington, DC, not in Copenhagen. Despite their early coaching, they want to be where some people have "too much". Indeed, they want to be those people. Likewise, the subject of the Times article, Thomas Sorenson, who left to avoid high taxes, seems to feel very little allegiance to his motherland, despite the good start its institutions gave him. The Times reports: "If I could," he said, "I’d have a European passport, not a Danish one." None of this is to say that the strains of commitment in Denmark have imperiled its stability in the near term. But as the low-tax, high-growth EU entrants from the east close in on the west, competition for both human and financial capital will intensify, drawing away ever more well-educated, cosmopolitan Danes--unless they are given sufficient incentive to stay put.
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