The Centre for Natural Burial

Eco-Friendly Burials Help Rebuild East Coast Reefs
CBS News
(AP) If you want to help the Chesapeake Bay in the afterlife, or forever be part of the memories from Baltimore’s historic Memorial Stadium, a Georgia company has a burial option you may want to consider.

Eco-Friendly Burials Help Rebuild East Coast Reefs
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, The Associated Press
If you want to help the Chesapeake Bay in the afterlife, or forever be part of the memories from Baltimore’s historic Memorial Stadium, a Georgia company has a burial option you may want to consider.
Eternal Reefs Inc., based in Decatur, Ga., mixes cremated remains […]

By Mark Harris, Vegetarian Times
On a bright, spring morning, dozens of mourners gather at Ramsey Creek Preserve’s natural cemetery to say good-bye to Chris Nichols. For nearly eight months the 28-year-old stonemason and “gentle, New Age hippie,” as his mother calls him, had battled aggressive colon cancer and, two days earlier, had passed away quietly […]

Practice Protects the Environment and Costs Less
By Vonda Sines, AC
The expression “sleeps with the fishes” has taken on a new meaning.
An emerging new movement in this country for simpler and cheaper burials that are also more environmentally friendly has resulted in new and more creative final resting places. One example, according to an article by […]

By Mark Harris, Relentless Media
When the funeral train following Chris Nichols’ plain, pine coffin arrived at his grave site one spring morning three years ago, this is what it saw. A simple cavity dug into the red earth of a southern pine forest, bunches of needles and rose petals strewn into and around the hole. […]

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 Clare Paterson, It’s your funeral (blog)
Very few people make plans for their own funerals despite most of them thinking it would be a good idea, according to recently published research. My grandmother pre-paid her funeral as a matter of course. She knew what she’d be getting, that it would be paid for and that […]

Michael d’Estries - ecorazzi
While Anna Nicole Smith took the traditional road of embalming and a hardwood casket, Rachel McAdams is saying no to the glamour and expense of modern burial and opting to go green.

Stuff.co.nz
A Marlborough man plans to give deceased nature-lovers the chance to permanently sleep with fish. Clive Barker, of the Marlborough Reef Trust, is seeking resource consent to build New Zealand’s first eco-burial reef.

Lori Valigra, National Geographic News
A burial in outer space seems a fitting farewell for James Doohan, the actor who played the beloved engineer “Scotty” on Star Trek. To honor his final wishes, some of Doohan’s ashes will be shot into space this fall, along with a CD of tributes from fans and loved ones.
Celebrities aren’t […]