The Centre for Natural Burial

Emilene White, The Tameside Advertiser
DENTON Cemetery is to start offering ‘green burials’ to bereaved families.
Instead of a traditional headstone, a tree is planted on the grave, eventually creating a small woodland. The 100-year-old cemetery was one of just four nationally to be awarded a green flag recently.

TAIPEI, CNA
As people attach more and more importance to the concept of a sustainable environment, more are embracing “green” burials, with Taipei recording 630 such burials so far, funeral operators said yesterday.

By Alexa Weigel-Krause, The Citizen
Cemeteries have historically been tarnished by associations with superstition, horror films and an eerie sense of religious sanctity. They are cold, filled with sorrow and an unsettling smell of fresh earth. Or must they be?