The Centre for Natural Burial

The Greening of American Cemeteries
by Kathleen Everett
It was raining when we got there. Correction: teeming. This was not the gentle day we awakened to, my intrepid companion and I, but we’d driven up from the Hudson Valley to visit Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve in Newfield, N.Y. and we were undeterred. As the hydro-apocalypse moved in, […]

Parmalee Thomas A.. American Funeral Director. 130(3)pp20
It’s a substance most embalmers work with just about every day. But it has managed to cause a storm of controversy in the European Union that has gone largely unnoticed in the United States.

Final Resting Spots Honor Dead, Earth
By Elizabeth Birge, Washington Post - Religion News Service
In life, Lou Tafuri loved to fish in the waters off the New Jersey coast. In death, he sleeps with the fishes. His family couldn’t be happier. Tafuri, who died in 2005, was cremated after donating his body to science. Shortly before […]

By Thom, Ad Dominum Blog
This isn’t something that people like to think about often, but it’s something that we all need to deal with, at least at some point … Death. There’s no escaping it. It’s going to happen.
Since there have been humans, people have found various ways to deal with death, and they almost […]

By The New Zealand City
Natural burial group in Kapiti wants cemetery where bodies can be buried using methods encouraging fast decomposition

By Adrian Shaw, The Mirror
Body Shop founder Dame Anita Roddick was laid to rest in a fittingly ecofriendly funeral, it emerged yesterday.

By Nicole F, Gather
There are two things certain about life and that is death and taxes.  In our present day society we are so prepared for taxes and even have them planned months before they are due, but how often do people think about death yet alone plan theirs.  Lisa Takeuchi’s new novel Remember me: […]

WithinKilleen Blog
While an odd topic, it’s an important one. I came across an article in a magazine that’s similar to the one below. If ever I make an early exit, I just wanted to put it out there that this is what I’d like….
Preserve Offers Natural Burial Sites
This may not look like a cemetery, but […]

By Jamie Sue Austin, In Repose
When I was little I wanted to grow up to be a butterfly.  Decades later, I have not achieved lepodetra status.   In life, you can’t always be what you want to be.   But, death is another story altogether.   Today there are more options for body disposal than ever before.   You […]

By Jim Baca, Only in New Mexico Blog
I got an amazing copy of a news story in the Gallup Independent from the Environment Department on my state email yesterday. I am surprised that I haven’t seen it in picked up by other media yet. The release is about eco burials. Should we call it ‘Green […]