The Centre for Natural Burial

By KEITH J. O’CONNOR, The Republican
Pease and Gay Funeral Home in Northampton offers a “green” burial as one of its many package options. And Jim Gay would love to be able to deliver on that option. There’s only one problem.
“Nobody’s been able to utilize it yet … it’s getting a cemetery to accommodate it,” Gay […]

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 […]

By Maureen, Mind Sorbet Blog
Best way to think of it as the Circle of Life is a green cycle or reduce, recycle and reuse. A full commitment to the environment should not just involve Earthly actions, but the final celebratory exit according to cradle to grave eco supporters. Getting married is a style choice throughout […]

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 […]

Ryan Burns The Times-Standard
Mark Harris has spent a lot of time researching funerals, and he believes that the way we bury our loved ones is about to undergo a major transformation.
”What’s going to happen is green burials will change the funeral industry in our time,” he said. “It’s already happening.”
Harris is a freelance journalist who […]

By Marketplace
An eco-friendly coffin producer in the U.K. has given some funeral advocates sticker shock over its expensive biodegradable caskets. And April Dembosky reports environmental advocates also question the company’s commitment to green.

By Fox News
It seems going green is all the rage these days, including after you die. Green burial — which eschews the use of embalming chemicals and caskets that refuse to biodegrade — is on the rise across North America, say trend trackers.

By Mark Harris, Grave Matters Blog
The Ramsey Creek Preserve, as enthusiasts of natural burial know, is the first — and until recently only — green cemetery in the United States.
On a trip down to Georgia last week, I stopped off in tiny Westminster, South Carolina, to tour its leafy grounds for first time since visiting […]

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 Karyn Chenoweth, M&C News
Death comes to us all, but many are bucking the trend for expensive lavish funerals in favor of more personal arrangements.
The Maine Sunday Telegram reported that many believe that services held at home and simply constructed caskets gradually will change how society deals with death.