A few weeks ago, my wife and I visited Crestone, Colorado, which has the only inter-denominational open-air funeral pyre in the United States. There is a deep sense of peacefulness at the place, sitting at the edge of a Zen monastery’s land with spectacular mountains in the distance. The idea of an open air cremation seems to me a good choice and there is a wonderful local organization, CEOLP, that provides the cremation services (http://informedfinalchoices.org). It was rece