South Australia to offer natural burials (Australia)
By AAP
South Australia has joined NSW, Victoria and Tasmania in offering a site for natural burials.
Urban Development Minister Paul Holloway said the state’s first natural burial ground would be established at Enfield Memorial Park in Adelaide’s northern suburbs later this year.
It allows for bodies to be prepared without chemical preservatives and then buried in a biodegradable casket or a shroud.
The grave is marked with a native tree or shrub rather than a headstone or monument.
“Over time the bushland created by the new burial ground will become a living and lasting natural memorial,” Mr Holloway said.
Natural burials were first introduced in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s.
Currently only three cemeteries offer the service in Australia, the Lismore Memorial Park in NSW, the Lilydale Cemeteries Trust in Victoria and the Kingston Cemetery in Tasmania.
I am moving to north tasmania and would like to know if there are natural burial sites there. I think they are wonderful ideas and would be surprised if more people where not interested if they became more known.They leave a natural tombstone (tree) and give back to the earth.