The Centre for Natural Burial

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Tired of toxic embalming fluid, rain forest wood caskets and other ecologically unfriendly practices, a new generation of undertakers is attempting to green up the funeral industry with burials that go easy on the land.

By Kathryn Bursch, Tampa Bay’s 10 News
Glendale, Florida – As John Wilkerson walks across the land he grew up on, he still marvels at its beauty. “Oh it is beautiful… look around,” says John Wilkerson of the Glendale Memorial Nature Preserve.And on this hike, Wilkerson is looking for a resting place; not just any spot […]

By Michael Scott Moore, Spiegel (Berlin)
As the first generation of Muslim immigrants to Germany get older, over 70 percent still plan to be buried in the country of their birth. Is integration a problem even in death? Yemos Vurgun was the frail matriarch of a Turkish immigrant family when she died in 1994, aged 90, […]

Stuff.co.nz
A Marlborough man plans to give deceased nature-lovers the chance to permanently sleep with fish. Clive Barker, of the Marlborough Reef Trust, is seeking resource consent to build New Zealand’s first eco-burial reef.

Victoria Times - Colonist
Victoria, the cremation capital of North America, might be the first to have a “green-burial” site.
People have been looking for environmentally friendly options when it comes to death, said Stephen Olson of Royal Oak Burial Park, which is about 18 months away from opening a half-acre site dedicated to so-called green burials.

Bodies wrapped in shroud, placed in biodegradable caskets
By Carolyn Heiman, Victoria Times Colonist
A Saanich cemetery is working on a “green burial” site.People have been looking for environmentally friendly options when it comes to death, said Stephen Olson of Royal Oak Burial Park, which is about 18 months away from opening a half-acre site dedicated to […]

The Vancouver Sun
Want to be kind to Mother Nature in death as in life? Consider planning a green burial.
Bodies are interred unembalmed in a biodegradable casket or shroud and graves do not contain liners, to allow remains to break down naturally. Graves may be marked by the planting of wildflowers or shrubs. The Ontario-based Natural […]

By Kate Lohnes, The Monitor
When it comes to funerals, many people think their options are to either be embalmed and buried, or cremated.

Tyler Cassity puts new life back into the business of burial
David Ian Miller, The New York Observer
Tyler Cassity at Fernwood cemetery in Mill Valley. Photo … Tyler Cassity at Fernwood cemetery in Mill Valley. Photo … A green grave site at Fernwood cemetery in Mill Valley. P… Preparing for a green burial at Fernwood cemetery […]

A Natural Way of Going
By Donna Talarico, AC
What seems like just a piece of our primitive history or sounds like something out of a creepy thriller novel, burying a body in the backyard is now actually quite the trendy thing to do. That is, if you are looking for an eco-friendly and/or less costly alternative […]