Up in smoke or down with worms? older adult environmentalist’s discourse on disposal, dispersal, and (green) burial

Environmentalists target their own behaviour choices as part of identity, including recycling, transportation, and clothing. Based on interviews with older adult environmentalists, we investigate whether environmentalism extends beyond lives. That is, do they want to be disposed or dispersed upon death? In terms environmentalism, then, considering the materials involved, one’s body, how might explain environmentalists’ thoughts death care? Is there a gap between identity an environmentalist anticipated about We examine care discourse 20 environmentalists Rumble et al.’s 2014 debate disposal dispersal. conclude that environmental activists maintain through deliberations, but both ecological science burial knowledge green options is evolving.