The Centre for Natural Burial

Woodland burial grounds are fast becoming the resting place of choice.
By Jonny Beardsall, The Telegraph
Woodland burials are the future. With growing demand for spaces in conventional cemeteries, as well as rising maintenance costs and increasing problems of vandalism, more and more people are coming round to the idea of ending up under a tree instead […]

In search of an earth-friendly burial
By Linda Falkenstein, The Isthmus Daily
You’d expect any place called the Gardens of Eternal Peace Mausoleum to be peaceful. Maybe too peaceful. In the central area of the Y-shaped building, rows of chairs face a large modernist mural of angular praying people. A soft symphonic version of “Bridge Over Troubled […]

By Darise Jean-Baptiste, The Ithaca Journal
NEWFIELD - For almost a month, BOCES welding students Shayne Jackson and Travis Darling have dedicated afew hours of their school days to create the “pallbearer’s  friend” - an aluminum cart with wheels and handles that will allow six people to easily transport caskets to gravesites.