The Centre for Natural Burial

By News 4
Environmentally conscious Nevadans can now be laid to rest in an earth friendly manner, according to officials at a south-Reno funeral home.
Northern Nevada Memorial Cremation and Burial Society is the first funeral home in Nevada to receive Green Burial Council certification, according to a news release issued by Spokesperson Michelle Kress.
“We are proud […]

By Perry B. Goodfriend, Atlanta Public Policy Examiner
The fall decision of the Bibb County (Macon), Georgia commission to strengthen local burial requirements has put a nail in the coffin of a development group’s plans for a “green” cemetery.

A controversy over a so-called “green cemetery” may get a new life in 2009.
The Summerland Natural Cemetery wants to offer what it calls natural burials with no coffins and no embalming. With a new year and a new commission chairman, that group wants to ask Bibb County to reconsider.
“She was a beautiful woman,” said Vickie […]

By Danny Carlton & Nicole Baker, Right Wing News
Not everyone wants rotting hippie corpses in their neighborhood — unfortunately for an aspiring moonbat mortician.
    MACON, Ga. — Elizabeth Collins, a gardener, birdwatcher and a self-described “renaissance woman,” wanted to start a “natural” cemetery where bodies would be buried without embalming, coffins or vaults.
    She and […]

‘Death midwife’ finds ways to ease pain, save money
By Cynthia Dizikes, Los Angeles Times
When Jerrigrace Lyons goes out on a case, she carries a basic set of tools: makeup kit, cardboard caskets and a handbook with practical instructions for icing and transporting bodies.
Lyons is a “death midwife,” a specialist in the little-known field of helping […]

By Gill Broad, Whitchurch Herald
PLANS have been submitted to allow the first green burial ground in North Shropshire to be established just outside Whitchurch. James Blantern of Alkington Grange, Alkington, has applied for permission to create the site on a three-acre section of field, holding a maximum of 10 burials a year.