The Centre for Natural Burial

An ordinance concerning the dead still is stirring up a lively debate.
By Jennifer Burk
More than two months after the Bibb County Commission passed a cemetery ordinance restricting how and where bodies may be buried, opponents and supporters of the law still are arguing the issue. Beth Collins, CEO of Summerland Natural Cemetery, and her partner, […]

By KATIE SEMINARA, Vindy .com
Hybrid vehicles, reusable grocery bags and energy-efficient light bulbs come to mind when some people think of conservation. Now, the last possible way for a person to “go green” is offered by some local funeral homes — through green burials. “It’s going back to a simpler form of burial,” said Dan […]

By GO Press Releases News & Opinion
The “natural burial” movement is blooming in the United States, and it will get a huge boost this week when Meredith Vieira, the host of NBC Today Show, interviews Carmen Flowers. Flowers is one of the authors of a new book titled Grave Expectations - Planning the End of […]

The owner of a country estate has unveiled plans to extend Norfolk’s first woodland burial site by creating a new wetland nature reserve.
The Colney Wood Memorial Park, near Norwich, was opened for burials and the scattering of ashes in 2000, despite concerns from villagers over the impact on a conservation area.

By Going Out Green Blog
“Green Revolution Hits Dead End in Georgia Cemetery Proposal,” read the headline of the Wall Street Journal last Friday. At least for now, residents of Bibb County, Georgia, have killed the dream of Elizabeth Collins to open a 57-acre natural cemetery on the eastern edge of Macon when board commissioners enacted […]

Who says funerals can’t be fun? Two authors give tips for a quirky send-off
NBC News
“Life is such a rich, complicated, joyous, mysterious, wild ride. Everyone has stories to tell and lessons to pass on, and what better way to do that than when you’re alive? It was your life; your funeral is the one time […]

Eco-friendly bamboo coffins will soon be available
By STACEY WOOD - The Dominion Post
Wellington furniture maker Andrew Hubbard breathes new life into the business of death with personalised, eco-friendly coffins.
Tender-rest coffins are made from fast-growing bamboo and joined with low-toxicity PVA glue, making them a green option for burial or cremation, as well as being cleaner […]

By Marylynne Pitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Any sizable stretch of land in Allegheny County has probably been walked, eyeballed or Googlemapped by Pete McQuillin as a possible green burial ground. Now, the organization Mr. McQuillin founded, Green Burial Pittsburgh, is considering offers of the use
of two large tracts of land from different property owners.

After-death disagreements spread to court
By Sandra Svoboda
Thomas Lynch and Lisa Carlson have a lot in common. Both are published authors, are popular among their peers and have public followings. Both are widely quoted “experts” in their field. Both seem to view their work as a calling as well as a profession. Both eloquently, rationally and […]

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 […]