Perhaps in rebuttal to the Mission District’s Dia De Los Muertos freakshow (complete with Michael Jackson tributes, elaborate headdresses, and San Francisco skeleton babies up way past their bedtimes), B-town is hosting its own celebration of the inevitable: a “Green Funeral Fair.”

Because people in Berkeley love to compost things, including each other.

Regardless, nothing says “Fun In the Sun” on a Saturday afternoon like writing your own environmentally conscious obituary. read more »