The Centre for Natural Burial

By Fox News
It seems going green is all the rage these days, including after you die. Green burial — which eschews the use of embalming chemicals and caskets that refuse to biodegrade — is on the rise across North America, say trend trackers.

GRETCHEN KEISER, The Georgia Bulletin
CONYERS—They were here in 1944, living one of the most ancient expressions of Catholic spirituality, when there was only one Catholic family in Rockdale County. And they are here today, 63 years later, still living that life, when the archdiocese numbers 650,000 Catholics.

By Matt Hryciw, The Toronto Observer
In death, environmentally conscious Ontarians will soon have the chance to extend their green lifestyles beyond the grave. Woodlawn Memorial Park in Guelph, Ont., hopes to open a swath of environmentally friendly final resting places late next year.
The cemetery is currently in the planning stages of a ‘green’ expansion of […]

By John Wills Lloyd
Harboring no expectations about an afterlife life, I’m hoping that my body can really go back to dirt. So, I was tickled when I saw that News of the Weird Chuck Sheppard had covered the topic of green burial in his items for the week of 25 November 2007. I have sometimes […]

By Laura Forbes, Fox 21
When our loved ones die, it often goes without saying that there will be a traditional funeral, in a mortuary, with embalming and an intricate casket. But many feel those practices are harmful to the earth, and more and more people are opting for “green burials.”

The Comet
Wilbury Hills Cemetery, on Stotfold Road in Letchworth GC, won the bronze award in the International Green Apple Awards for 2007, at a ceremony in the House of Commons, run by the Green Organisation.

The Yomiuri Shimbun, Associated Press
With natural burial grounds becoming increasingly popular among people wanting to “return to nature” after they die, a new ecologically friendly woodland burial ground was opened near Tokyo this autumn.

No embalming, no metal caskets, no vaults and, for some, a contribution to land conservation
By Kirsten Scharnbergm, Chicago Tribune
When Billy Campbell’s father died a number of years ago, the family did what was expected at the time: Bury him in a historic cemetery behind the family’s Methodist church.
The setting was lovely and bucolic, but Campbell, […]

The China Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Taipei County Government and the Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association yesterday jointly inaugurated a life garden in Jinshan Township, allowing county residents to bury ashes of their deceased family members in an environmentally friendly way.

By Dixon Kinser, so indie it’s embarrassing
Last Spring I took our Youth Ministry community away on a death retreat.
Over the course of the weekend we practiced prayer mediations in hospitals, visited funeral homes and had four different conversations; 1.) Why We Are Afraid to Die in America? 2.) Living With Death: Why Almost every Christian […]