The Centre for Natural Burial

A natural burial area has been officially opened at Enfield in Adelaide.
Natural burials use a shroud or biodegradable coffin and bodies are not treated with chemicals. Funeral director Kevin Hartley says there has been plenty of interest in natural burial plots. “We’ve been conducting natural shroud burials since January last year and business has grown […]

Former EastEnders star Wendy Richard, who was buried in a wicker coffin, has brought greener funerals into the spotlight. Kate Hodal looks at green funerals, from being laid to rest in bamboo to having your body “promessed”
By, The Press and Journal
THE recent funeral of former EastEnders star Wendy Richard was always going to attract attention, […]

Eco-friendly bamboo coffins will soon be available
By STACEY WOOD - The Dominion Post
Wellington furniture maker Andrew Hubbard breathes new life into the business of death with personalised, eco-friendly coffins.
Tender-rest coffins are made from fast-growing bamboo and joined with low-toxicity PVA glue, making them a green option for burial or cremation, as well as being cleaner […]

By Rebecca Lollback, Northern Star
WHEN John Gough’s mother-in-law died in June last year, the family decided to bury her at Lismore’s new bush cemetery. “It was a very sad time for us, for my wife and her sister,” he said. “Their mum was in a lot of pain right before she died. She was 97.”
The […]

BRYAN FURNASS, The Canbera Times
From time immemorial, dying, death and the disposal of human remains have been of central concern to human cultures. For many thousands of years early humans buried their dead in simple shallow graves, their bodies thereafter becoming part of the natural ecosystem.

Audio Transcript by Ian Townsend, ABC
There’s a boom in funerals around the corner as the Boomers face mortality, but neither cemeteries nor crematoria are eco-friendly. The business of burials is beginning to adapt, and so are their future customers.

A natural burial site has been chosen for Adelaide
A parcel of bushland at Enfield Memorial Park cemetery in Adelaide is to be turned into what is described as an environmentally-friendly grave site.

By AAP
South Australia has joined NSW, Victoria and Tasmania in offering a site for natural burials.

A proposed new eco burial area with trees planted in commemoration of loved ones will be landscaped with the help of caring young students from Te Puru School.
The school children are assisting Thames-Coromandel District Council with a planting session at Totara Cemetery next Thursday September 11 as part of Conservation Week.

PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent
LOCAL AUTHORITIES throughout the State should make more burial spaces available for Muslims as, currently, there is just one graveyard in the Republic where they can be buried, a spokesman for the community in Ireland has said.
Ali Selim, secretary of the Irish Council of Imams and based at the Islamic Cultural […]