The Centre for Natural Burial

By Jeremy Elton Jacquot, Los Angeles Science & Technology
Fresh off our story a few days ago reporting on the increasing trend towards more eco-friendly funeral pyres in India, we bring you news now of a Scottish company’s attempts to revive the jute industry by building coffins with the plant material. J Funerals, based in Dundee, […]

By Eva R. Marienchild,  Associated Content
Cremation has always been viewed as a viable alternative to standard funerals, if only to spare families the cost and extravagance of a typical burial. Funerals command a pretty penny and seem to offer few options at a time when the loved ones of the deceased are not thinking practically. […]

By Robbie Byrd, THE HUNTSVILLE ITEM
OAKHURST, TEXAS— She had been battling cancer for nearly two years now, and finally she drew her last breath surrounded by friends and family. They took her frail body — wrapped in a warm down comforter — and lined her grave with Spanish moss, just as she had asked them […]

By Cameron Katrina, Myspace Blog
‘Green’ burial includes no embalming and the use of wrapping the body in a shroud or placing them (the deceased) in a completely bio-degradable coffin/casket that can be made of non-treated wood, wicker, or cardboard. Instead of creating large cemeteries that are only used for the dead and the use of […]

By Daniel Barden
THE area’s first new-style woodland burial park is soon to be open in North Weald.
Planners gave the green light for the 52-acre Epping Forest Burial Park last year and now an open day is being held for people to get a first glimpse how the mature woodland cemetery will look.

BBC News
A Dundee company is hoping to revive the city’s jute industry by selling coffins made from the material. J Funerals, established during Dundee’s reign over jute manufacturing, has been continuing to find new and innovative ways of using jute.

BBC News
Concerns have been raised over the lack of natural burial sites in Cornwall. The county currently has one site near Penzance for environmentally friendly burials while Devon has seven sites. The Association for Natural Burial Grounds (ANBG) said the problem was particularly prevalent in Cornwall and the South East.

If you think it’s hard to live in an environmentally conscious manner, just wait until you’re dead!
By Michael Kalmanovitch, SEE magazine
Even in death, Michael Kalmanovitch will follow the cardinal rules of conservation. He wants his body rendered, “like any other animal,” and hopefully recycled–rendering, of course, being the process by which a body is crushed […]