The Centre for Natural Burial

Goodbye, metal casket; hello, biodegradable box:
The American way of death is going green
By Eileen Finan,  People Magazine
Before Catherine Still died at age 42 on May 15, alter a long battle with leukaemia, she knew how she wanted to be buried. Her body was to be refrigerated, not preserved with embalming fluid. She would lie in […]

Do You Realise? Blog
One of my greatest pet peeves is the absolutely ridiculous misuse of land for people to be buried in metal boxes in the ground. I’ve always said I wanted to be cremated, although now I wonder about the air pollution caused by crematoriums.

BBC News
A woman was inspired to set up a green burial ground on the Lleyn peninsula after her partner nearly died. Dr Arabella Melville, 58, said she realised there was nowhere Colin Johnson would have liked to be buried if he had passed away. It was the catalyst needed to set up a charity to […]

A Celebration of Jim Strigle’s Life
By Charmaine Smith-Miles,  Anderson Independent Mail
A story on Mr. Strigle’s burial and the rise of “green cemeteries” is tentatively scheduled to air at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday’s edition of NBC Nightly News.

By DePretis, AAMS Newsletter For Mortuary Service Professionals
Peoplemagazine, June 25th, 2007, Volume 67, No. 25, pages 68-71, Special Double Issue with Matthew McConaughey on the cover.
Fascinating article in this week’s People magazine titled, “Dust to Dust, Goodbye, metal casket; hello, biodegradable box: The American way of death is going green.”

By NICKI THOMAS, SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA
Proponents of environmentally friendly burials are encouraging people to give back to the earth - by becoming part of it.
Green burials, which involve no embalming or grave lining, and biodegradable containers, “connect people to a larger story of rebirth and regeneration,” said Joe Sehee, executive director of the Green […]

By Karen E., gather Blog
Since the human body is made up of from 55-60% water, it would only make sense to me that one of the reasons for drought could be that we have buried our water with our dead for more than 150 years.  I have tried to explain this thought to my husband […]

By Anita French, The Morning News
Here’s a poll question you may not see published: How many Americans would prefer not to be embalmed or fussed over when they die, opting instead for cremation, direct burial or a do-it-yourself, at-home affair?

By Simon Bristow, Yorkshire Post
WORK will begin next week on a new cemetery that will offer East Ridingresidents “green” burials for the first time.

y Shallima Maharaj, Reuters
North Americans who spend their lives reducing, reusing and recycling can keep doing their bit for the environment after they die, if Europe’s “green funeral” trend makes its way across the Atlantic.