When Ken White was diagnosed with cancer in 1992, he made it clear that when he passed away he wanted nothing to do with any morticians or embalming fluids and chemicals. White was a lifelong Methow Valley resident and a passionate naturalist and environmentalist. For him, “dust to dust” was a phrase meant to be taken literally — as in, he wanted his remains to return to the earth with as little human interference as possible.
But things didn’t go as smoothly as White may have hoped, his friend Dave Sabold recalled.
