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“Green Burials” A Growing Trend

  • September 27, 2004

By Megan Heidlberg, WNEG32
A trail in Westminster, South Carolina, isn’t your typical forest trail. It’s actually a burial ground too. Scattered amongst the trees, leaves, and waterfall lies more than 20 graves.

Group aims for ’green cemetery’ in Otsego County

  • September 23, 2004

By Tom Grace, Cooperstown News Bureau
Bill Ralston of Cooperstown said that after he’s dead, he wants his body to decay gradually and become part of nature at his final resting place.
He doesn’t want an expensive funeral or fancy casket, and he’d like to skip the embalming fluid, please. If others paused a moment to consider […]

Returning to the earth

  • September 19, 2004

LEONORA LaPETER, St. Petersburg TimesGLENDALE - Robert Pridgen lay in the vegetable cooler, in a poplar box cut from nearby trees. Lung cancer had taken him the day before. He was 48.

Dispose of Properly

  • September 16, 2004

By Lindy T. Shepherd, Orlando Weekly
Sooner or later, we’re all going to die. Even Democrats and Republicans aren’t divided on this one. But what happens to us after we die is another story altogether. We’re not talking about esoteric interpretations of a soulful afterlife, or the lack thereof, but the nuts and bolts of respectfully […]