Your life, reduced to kilos of carbon dioxide

Every cremation creates around 160 kg (353 pounds) of carbon dioxide, compared to 39 kg of carbon dioxide for each burial.

From a story about an Adelaide crematorium claiming to offer zero carbon funerals.

It's a good thing that we now count the carbon dioxide emissions of a wide range of activities. Much is still unknown, and we need to calculate other environmental and social effects, not just emissions. But this is a great first step in purposefully creating a society where we know what's going on and choose activities based on their total impacts.