Natural Burial Media Archives /

Are people living near graveyards at increased risk of exposure to biohazards?

  • March 24, 2006

By Cecil Adams, The Straight Dope / Salt Lake City Weekly
Dear Cecil:
Do you ever wonder: in those houses built strategically next to graveyards, are the occupants drinking residual waste products (or atoms that the body is composed of) of those buried next to them? Think about it–if they’re drinking well water, coffins begin to break […]

Wild Cemetaries Give Back To The Living

  • March 14, 2006

By Nancy Jacques, New West Network, Four Corners
Drive a couple of hours east of Denver. While some would say there’s nothing out there, others might see a million acres of pasture, small towns or Kansas. Laina Corazon Coit and Rick Chase see potential, a prairie restored, the largest privately held wilderness area in America, which […]