The Centre for Natural Burial

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While an odd topic, it’s an important one. I came across an article in a magazine that’s similar to the one below. If ever I make an early exit, I just wanted to put it out there that this is what I’d like….
Preserve Offers Natural Burial Sites
This may not look like a cemetery, but […]

Goodbye, metal casket; hello, biodegradable box:
The American way of death is going green
By Eileen Finan,  People Magazine
Before Catherine Still died at age 42 on May 15, alter a long battle with leukaemia, she knew how she wanted to be buried. Her body was to be refrigerated, not preserved with embalming fluid. She would lie in […]

The Environmentally Friendly Way to Be Buried
By Blair Mathis, AC
Many people are more aware of environmental dangers and the need for ‘green’ preservation than any other time. Some feel it is their duty, while others follow that need as a way of life.
But what about after death? For those who dedicate their lives to preserving […]

By Jonathan, Move Blog
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. Instead of the friendly union, of life and death so apparent in Nature, we are taught that death is an accident, a deplorable punishment for the oldest sin, the archenemy of life.
But let children walk with Nature, let them […]

A Natural Way of Going
By Donna Talarico, AC
What seems like just a piece of our primitive history or sounds like something out of a creepy thriller novel, burying a body in the backyard is now actually quite the trendy thing to do. That is, if you are looking for an eco-friendly and/or less costly alternative […]

By Nancy Jacques, Good Dirt Radio
When it comes to resource efficiency, even in death, we have choices that can affect a sustainable future. Consider the conventional burial, American style, which annually requires some 828,000 gallons of toxic embalming fluid, over a hundred thousand tons of steel and 30 million board feet of lumber.

By Diane M. Cooper, Spirit of Ma’at
Green Burial is a less expensive and more meaningful burial option that provides loved ones with a peaceful resting place in a manner friendly towards nature, wildlife, and the environment. Burial sites are in woodlands and meadowlands, preserving natural habitat for insects, birds, and other wildlife. The use of […]

By Rebecca James, Syracuse Post-Standard
Susan Thomas’ dog bounds across the field, leaping out of the underbrush that covers the southern Tompkins County hilltop, intent on the scent of some small creature. Meanwhile, Thomas and Ed Oyer talk about death. The artist and the retired professor both like the idea of finding stone benches for this […]

By Bruce Geiselman, Waste News.com
Billy Campbell is a rural doctor, an environmentalist and something of a pioneer — opening the nation´s first “green cemetery.” Dr. Campbell also jokes that he operates the nation´s only combination doctor´s office and cemetery office. “I´m pretty sure we´re the only one,” he said, laughing.

The latest trend in undertaking gives new meaning to the term ‘dust to dust’
By Patricia Leigh Brown, The Sydney Morning Herald
TOMMY Odom’s remains lie on a steep, windswept hill at Fernwood Cemetery, New Jersey, beneath an oak sapling, a piece of petrified wood and a bundle of dried sage tied with a lavender ribbon. When […]