The Centre for Natural Burial

The Globe and Mail. Toronto
Travelling to the sweet hereafter doesn’t really require a coffin able to withstand ‘a direct nuclear strike.’ In fact, MARY AMBROSE reports, shunning high-cost funeral options is not only eco-friendly — it’s all the rage
When their mother died recently, Bill and Kirk Fuller didn’t know what kind of funeral to arrange. […]

Press Democrat“So many people want to be a tree.”
– Tyler Cassity, cemetery entrepreneur

Reclaiming the realities and rituals of death
By Nancy Rommelmann, LA Times Cover Story
For centuries in America, we tended to our dead. People died at home, and relatives prepared the body, laid it out in the parlor and sat by as callers paid final respects. The body was buried in the family cemetery, if there was […]

By Susan Swartz, Press Democrat
Tommy Randal Odom, a gypsy wanderer in life, has found, in death, a permanent niche in history as the first person to be buried green in California. The body of the Texas native was laid to rest in September in Mill Valley at the first burial preserve on […]

By Bobby Caina Calvan, The Boston GlobeMILL VALLEY, Calif. - The organic movement has long been a way of life for California’s north coast, and now a Marin County cemetery is taking things further: a “green” cemetery that touts biodegradable caskets, the wilderness, and a back-to-nature approach to taking care of the […]

Washington Post
The Daphne Fernwood Cemetery in Mill Valley, Tenn., soon to be renamed Forever Fermwood, will be a green cemetery.

By Peter Fimrite, the San Francisco Chronicle
Marsha Goldberg has every intention of pushing up daisies when she dies. Daisies, wildflowers and a big redwood tree, too.
Goldberg is calling dibs on her choice of burial sites on a hilly, forested 32-acre stretch of land in Mill Valley, where she is making plans to become fertilizer at […]