The Centre for Natural Burial

Natural burial methods growing in popularity
By JAY LEVIN, The Pueblo Chieftain
HACKENSACK, N.J. - Genevieve Maiberger is excited about her burial.
When the time arrives, the retired schoolteacher from Teaneck, N.J., will be placed in a linen shroud and planted in the earth of a hilltop in a lovely meadow, along with the ashes of her husband, […]

By Alexandra Boyd, How Green is Your Life
t is with a sad and heavy heart that I write the last blog for 2007.
It’s at this time we look back at what the passing year has brought and look forward to the new one and the unknown things it may bring. I for one would like […]

By Marc Sherman
A story about “green burials” made me think of my father.
In a green burial, the deceased is not embalmed. He is natural and fresh. He is buried in a bio-degradable coffin. Maybe a tree is planted over him. Maybe not.

By SARAH SKIDMORE, the Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — Cynthia Beal wants to be an Oregon cherry tree after she dies. She has everything to make it happen — a body, a burial site and a biodegradable coffin.
“It is composting at its best,” said Beal, owner of The Natural Burial Company, which will sell a variety […]

By Joey Bunch, The Denver Post
Denver — Some people are getting a chance to stand up for the environment, even when they’re 6 feet under. The national Green Burial Council advocates a plan that allows people to be buried naturally — no embalming, no casket, no steel vault, nothing that can’t return to dust — […]

By Jennifer Coles, Evening Telegraph
Plans to build a new eco-friendly burial site costing £15,000 have been unveiled.
Wellingborough Council wants the burial site on the south side of Doddington Road cemetery in Wellingborough, an area which is unsuitable for stone masonry, and is applying to the Government for the money to help finance the project.

By M Nassal, Stress free Productivity.blog
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust– this is a little difficult when the body is laid to rest in a hermetically sealed box. For as long as I can remember the most popular coffins have been those that will outlast the pyramids. Now a company called Natural Burial Company is […]

By Rebekah Burgess, APN News & Media
Natural burials, though little is known about them in New Zealand, will soon be offered in provincial Wairarapa.

By Joe Sehee, PERC (Property and Environment Research Center)
Winter 2007
Volume 25 | Number 4
Green burial may sound like another trend of the eco-chic, but it’s actually the way most of humanity has cared for its dead for thousands of years. The idea calls for returning to the earth without the use of non-biodegradable toxins or […]

By APRIL DEMBOSKY, New York Times
This July, when Jorgi Wu was laid to rest in central California, she became the first American to be buried in an Ecopod — a 100 percent biodegradable coffin made of recycled paper. The seedpod-shaped coffin is designed to be planted in the ground, dissolve and replenish the earth with […]