The Centre for Natural Burial

Must Britain’s cemeteries and crematoriums be so drab and dreary? Steve Rose reports on moves to shake up the architecture of death
The Guardian
Death used to be a nice line of work for architects, but these days it’s not exactly a growth area. It generated the tombs and pyramids of Egypt, the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the […]

By Theresa Lalonde, CBC Radio, “Sounds Like Canada”
Canada has an active green burial movement. Members have been pushing for eco-friendly funerals for years. And beginning next year, the first official green burial sites will open.

By Lisa-Ann, Scattershots from the road (blog)
Both my interest in genealogy and my Catholic faith have given me opportunity to reflect on the hereafter and memorials.  I have long told my husband I want a simple burial, in a quiet setting.  I prefer traditional cemeteries, but my grandparents are buried in a park-like, tree-filled cemetery, […]

By Apita, Bla Bla Blog
Not something too many people think about. But I started taking interest in this after reading a couple books. When I grew up, when a person died, there was no question as to what happened to the body…

By Kirsten Scharnberg, 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, a devoted land conservationist, couldn’t stop thinking, “With what we spent on that funeral, […]