The Centre for Natural Burial

By Rebecca Lollback, Northern Star
WHEN John Gough’s mother-in-law died in June last year, the family decided to bury her at Lismore’s new bush cemetery. “It was a very sad time for us, for my wife and her sister,” he said. “Their mum was in a lot of pain right before she died. She was 97.”
The […]

Environmentally friendly burials are popular in Europe and the U.S., but only one Canadian cemetery offers the chance to truly be one with the earth
By Nicholas Read, Special to the Vancouver Sun
Late last year, the Royal Oak Burial Park in Saanich held what is believed by cemetery and government officials to be the first green […]

EveningStar
DESPITE nearly 400 protests plus objections from all the surrounding villages, community leaders are being recommended to give the go-ahead to proposals for a new woodland burial site.
The controversial venture would be set up on 97 acres of farmland at Tuddenham St Martin and eventually cater for 21,000 graves.

BRYAN FURNASS, The Canbera Times
From time immemorial, dying, death and the disposal of human remains have been of central concern to human cultures. For many thousands of years early humans buried their dead in simple shallow graves, their bodies thereafter becoming part of the natural ecosystem.

By Emily Longnecke, Eyewitness News
Indianapolis - There’s a new way to bury a loved one in Indiana as the green movement is now affecting even the final resting place. It’s the one experience everyone will face someday.
“It’s the one certainty that we know isn’t going to change, that we deal with on a daily basis,” […]

One man’s adventure planning his own natural burial.
A recent AARP poll asked, “Which type of burial is most appealing?” Only 8 percent answered that they wanted a traditional cemetery burial, and only 18 percent chose cremation. An amazing 70 percent of those polled through the website said that they wanted a green burial.
But what is […]

By Neil Phillips, Bucks Free Press
AS work forges ahead to complete a woodland cemetery for Beaconsfield, the first funerals have already been staged there. Building work is hoped to be completed by Easter, ahead of a full opening to the public shortly afterwards.

Kerry Banks, Financial Post Magazine
Royal Oak’s Stephen Olson: “The funeral industry can’t afford to ignore this trend”
If you go to pay your respects to someone buried at Royal Oak Burial Park’s green cemetery in Victoria, you won’t see any tombstones. In the park-like glade bordered by pines, you’ll locate the grave with a GPS device. […]

By Environment Point
The process of funerals and burials is something that everyone has to face at some point in their lives. The loss of a loved one is a traumatic experience and making funeral arrangements can be very stressful during a time when people are overcome with grief. Funeral and burial arrangements can cost thousands […]

By Jennifer Burk, Macon
At least 40 people packed the Bibb County Commission board room Tuesday night as many came in protest and support of an ordinance regulating cemeteries.
Beth Collins, CEO of Summerland Natural Cemetery, asked the commission to repeal an ordinance it passed in November that prohibits her from building a “green” cemetery in east […]