The Centre for Natural Burial

Home funerals, memorial reefs, natural cemeteries and the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Humboldt
By Bob Doran, North Coast Journal
What happens after you’re dead? The exact nature of the afterlife (if there is one) is debatable and far from certain. What is certain is that we leave behind a body, a mass of flesh and bone that […]

By Wendy Priesnitz, Natural Life Magazine
When a loved one dies, environmental issues may not be top of mind for grieving family and friends. However, the average funeral and burial are very un-green.
Embalming fluid is made with formaldehyde, which is a carcinogen. Most traditional caskets are made from formaldehyde-glued chipboard covered in a thin veneer. Handles […]

BY MARYLYNNE PITZ, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
There are green buildings, green cars, even green weddings. Now comes one of the latest, and ultimately last moves, environmentally conscious consumers can make - green burials.

Expenses go towards preserving natural spaces set aside as burial preserves
The Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - The natural burial movement is to the established funeral industry as the hospice movement is to hospital palliative care of the dying. t is evolving as part of a holistic philosophy adhered to by people who find society’s institutions just don’t […]

Practice popular in other states, but laws unclear in region
By Tara Fasol, The Southern
JOHNSTON CITY - Southern Illinois residents can find a green lining for their burial plans. A natural burial, according to www.greenburials.org, is a burial that aims to bring the deceased as close to nature as possible.

By Joey Bunch, The Denver Post
Denver — Some people are getting a chance to stand up for the environment, even when they’re 6 feet under. The national Green Burial Council advocates a plan that allows people to be buried naturally — no embalming, no casket, no steel vault, nothing that can’t return to dust — […]

LYNNPORT (AP) — A growing number of environmentalists are trying to go “green” even when it comes to death, planning for home funerals with handmade, biodegradable caskets.

By Joan Carreon, Herald News
With everything seemingly going green these days, why not burials? Green burials are a relatively new concept, at least for the Midwest. But that may be changing.

By Peter Holderness, Medill Reports - Chicago, Northwestern University
Americans bury the equivalent of the Golden Gate Bridge every year in placing loved ones in cemeteries. Yes, that’s right, more than 90,000 tons of metal and 1.6 million tons of concrete — more asphalt and steel than in the San Francisco icon — is used in […]

By Eileen,  EcoSpace
When animals and plants die, they decompose and become nutrients for new forms of life. Why should we deny ourselves of Mother Earth’s beautiful cycle?  Modern cemeteries separate the deceased from natural cycles by embalming them in toxic chemicals, boxing them in steel caskets and concrete burial vaults, and drenching the funeral grounds […]