The Centre for Natural Burial

Associated Press
A northern Virginia company is putting its own twist on the term “living memorial,” and giving the deceased a chance to rise again … in a way.
Start-up company EcoEternity is offering to plant cremated remains in a biodegradeable urn … or without any container at all … beside a mature tree.

The UK is blazing a trail with eco funerals. Go to ground gently and you can leave a greener legacy,
By Lucy Siegle, The Observer
It would be a great shame to spend your whole life walking on eco eggshells, counting carbon calories, wearing hemp socks and tirelessly promoting biodiversity only to squander it all on […]

Practice Protects the Environment and Costs Less
By Vonda Sines, AC
The expression “sleeps with the fishes” has taken on a new meaning.
An emerging new movement in this country for simpler and cheaper burials that are also more environmentally friendly has resulted in new and more creative final resting places. One example, according to an article by […]

By Associated Press
A growing number of environmentalists are trying to go “green” even when it comes to death, planning for home funerals with handmade, biodegradable caskets.
Penny Rhodes, 64, of Albany Township, and her family washed and dressed her father’s body after he died and then wrapped him in a family quilt in his bed.
Her brother […]

More are choosing to be buried simply — without elaborate caskets or preparations — to lessen their final impact on the environment
By Cynthia Hubert - Bee Staff Writer
Hannah Wit once told her longtime boyfriend what should happen to her body after her death.No toxic embalming fluid for preservation, she insisted. No fancy metal casket lined […]

Centreville Company Plants Cremated Remains in Tree Root Systems
By Kendra Marr, Washington Post Staff Writer
The expression “living memorial” has never been so literal.
Start-up EcoEternity is launching an unusual twist on cremation interment in Middleburg. Trees, not burial plots, are the final resting places for the ashes of the deceased. For a price, the Centreville-based company […]

By Lisa Cullen
Eye-opening, funny, and unforgettable, Remember Me gives an account of the ways in which Americans are designing new occasions to mark death — by celebrating life. (video links)

By Mark Harris, Relentless Media
When the funeral train following Chris Nichols’ plain, pine coffin arrived at his grave site one spring morning three years ago, this is what it saw. A simple cavity dug into the red earth of a southern pine forest, bunches of needles and rose petals strewn into and around the hole. […]