The Centre for Natural Burial

By Sam Casey, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
OWNERS of an environmentally friendly burial ground say it could be the answer to Huddersfield’s grave shortage. Susan and Michael Brook have about 6,000 plots at the seven-acre Rose Hill natural burial ground in Birkby.

By Michael d’Estries, Green Living
Several years ago, during a stay in Hong Kong for a summer, I often found moments to trek out to the jungle forests that surround the outskirts of the city. Many times, I would wander through abandoned villages where cemeteries long forgotten would blend in with the flora; creating a natural […]

Expenses go towards preserving natural spaces set aside as burial preserves
The Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - The natural burial movement is to the established funeral industry as the hospice movement is to hospital palliative care of the dying. t is evolving as part of a holistic philosophy adhered to by people who find society’s institutions just don’t […]

By Danny Law, Deeside Piper and Herald
FINZEAN residents are hoping to get permission to build a new graveyard near to the Birse and Feughside Church. The new cemetery would include a “green” graveyard allowing more environmentally-friendly burials.

Practice popular in other states, but laws unclear in region
By Tara Fasol, The Southern
JOHNSTON CITY - Southern Illinois residents can find a green lining for their burial plans. A natural burial, according to www.greenburials.org, is a burial that aims to bring the deceased as close to nature as possible.

Toledo Blade
BABY Boomers were the first generation to wholeheartedly embrace the environmental movement, and now they are bent on taking their zeal to save the planet all the way, literally, to the grave.

Befriending death and planning for the inevitable
By Stephen Carter-Novotni, City Beat
As with living well, dying well is a delicate balance between control and letting go — the concrete realities and the transcendence that we can embrace.
Death as a topic is fascinating and also repulsive.

Bob Such
When Homo sapiens dropped dead in our hunter and gatherer phase, the remains stayed there, subject to the decaying processes of nature. Since then, humans have used burials, cremation, tombs, embalming, mummification and pyramids to deal with the inevitable day when Mother Nature comes knocking. But we now have a choice of returning to […]

By Kevin Strauss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN
Concerns about the environment seem to be entering almost every industry, and the “death care” — or funeral — industry is no exception. The “green burial” movement is catching on in the United States.

Molly Kavanaugh, Plain Dealer Reporter
In the past few months Cynthia Carroll has buried her father, struggled with a serious illness and turned 50. All that has made the Shaker Heights woman ponder death, especially what will happen to her body after she dies.
“I want to honor death as a natural process, not one with preservatives,” […]