Comments on: Green Burial

By: JD Smucker

JD Smucker — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:20:40 +0000

Goshen Indiana is working on a cemetery for natural burials. they have been making preparations for the past year, and we look forward to having one in use within the next year. Goshen is located in northern Indiana between South Bend and Fort Wayne. And you are right that the idea of green burials has taken a long time for Indiana to embrace.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:49:42 +0000

I’m interested in working on a council in Indiana for natural burial. Are there any organizations locally?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:41:14 +0000

The author of this article speaks rather ignorantly about embalming. If done properly and respectfully, embalming is the most respectful and caring method of caring for human remains. Perhaps the author should do more research and talk to the professionals before speaking so ignorantly.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:05:32 +0000

Talking with Flanner and Buchanan in Broad Ripple (Indianapolis), they are moving in the green burial direction. They will use a shroud with earth contact, but still use a vault to keep the edges from caving in. Other materials I’ve received sound like they are going to be doing more; setting aside areas of cemetaries to remain natural. Indiana does seem to be behind.

By: JPear

JPear — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:01:46 +0000

Flanner & Buchanan in Indianapolis is opening a green burial ground. I am thrilled!

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:21:15 +0000

My husband’s best friend was just buried on Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina in the state’s first green cemetery. He was the first to be buried there. It was simple and beautiful, in the woods near a spring. Now I want to find that in Indiana!

By: Denise

Denise — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:17:55 +0000

Today I went to a local funeral home and did a prepay funeral. I am being cremated, mostly because of the expense of a burial. I learned of “green burial” today at the funeral home. I have wanted something of this sort for quite awhile, as does my husband. BUT I was told that Indiana didn’t have a green cementery at this time. WHY? So what is so different in Indiana that we can’t have a green cementery but other states have them available? It needs to change.

By: James

James — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:37:23 +0000

.Did you ever see a funeral home in a covered wagon? I submit that the paths by pioneers across the great plains were the first Green burial sites.How did we give these funeral Home guys such a grip on what we do with our bodies? Check out the guy in Bloomington, he might have the answer to how you want to be buried.

By: Richard J. Johnson

Richard J. Johnson — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:46:42 +0000

Consider the biomass that the native prairie supported for thousands of years; look for traces of it now, discounting the use, or misuse, that man has made made of it these past 150 years, or so. It is gone. All of the life that the prairie supported has been recycled by Mother Nature.But, after man is done tinkering with it, the grass will come back and with it the animals. It’s Nature’s way and sooner or later we, as a society, will understand that and changes will come. If the “baby boomers” could stop a horrible war, maybe they will be able to stop our current barbaric way of burying the dead. Sweden has been doing it for many centuries; we can too.

By: Bloomingtonian

Bloomingtonian — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:53:02 +0000

Hi, I am opening a Green Burial Ground right outside the city limits of Bloomington, Indiana. Please feel free to email me and I will keep you posted.
deanchance123@hotmail.com