Natural Burial Featured in Harrowsmith Magazine
“What a Way to Go” an article on natural burial by Bridget Wayland which appears in this April’s Harrowsmith Country Life magazine, features insights from Natural Burial Co-operative president, Michael Salisbury. Pick it up at the news stand this month and share it with your friends. Help us make natural burial possible in Canada by becoming a member of the co-operative today.”It may surprise you, but unless you specify in advance, your own burial could be an environmental nightmare. The alternative, a so-called “green” burial, is really catching on. Especially among environmentally aware baby boomers…
At first glance, cremation does seem like a more earth-friendly option than embalming. Like most modern natural-gas devices, the technology is becoming more efficient, but cremation still burns a non-renewable fossil fuel, produces greenhouse-gas emissions and, if your teeth are in rough shape, releases significant amounts of mercury vapor…
The idea of an eco-funeral (natural burial) is one that involves less consumption, less waste and far less pollution than the typical option, which puts toxic formaldehyde, precious hardwood, metals and a whack of reinforced concrete into the earth, and treats your grave site to the grounds keeping of the decidedly non-organic kind.”