The Centre for Natural Burial

WithinKilleen Blog
While an odd topic, it’s an important one. I came across an article in a magazine that’s similar to the one below. If ever I make an early exit, I just wanted to put it out there that this is what I’d like….
Preserve Offers Natural Burial Sites
This may not look like a cemetery, but […]

The Daily Journal
East Rochester, N.Y. — When Mary Woodsen of Ithaca dies, she does not want her body filled with chemicals and put into a concrete vault 6 feet under.
“Being buried in a cemetery with a mowed lawn full of rows of gravestones never appealed” to her, Woodsen said. Woodsen is opting for a more […]

By Bangor Daily News
ORRINGTON - Fourteen pristine acres along the Penobscot River could become perpetually green. An Auburn-based organization told town planners last week it wants to create a “green” cemetery — possibly the first in New England — off the Mill Creek Road.

By Marcela Rojas, The Ithaca Journal
NEWFIELD, N.Y. -A short drive southwest of Ithaca, past the timeworn silos and one of the state’s last remaining covered bridges, sits Irish Hill Road, a winding dirt byway that stretches to a place where nature meets eternity.

By William Kates, Associated Press
NEWFIELD, N.Y. — It sits on the eastern fringe of New York’s Finger Lakes region and is bounded on three sides by 8,000 acres of protected forests: the perfectly natural place to spend an eternity. The 93-acre Greensprings Natural Cemetery is the first of its kind in New York and one […]

By Darise Jean-Baptiste, The Ithaca Journal
NEWFIELD - For almost a month, BOCES welding students Shayne Jackson and Travis Darling have dedicated afew hours of their school days to create the “pallbearer’s  friend” - an aluminum cart with wheels and handles that will allow six people to easily transport caskets to gravesites.

By Kara Mayer Robinson, North Jersey Record
When Jim Robson of Rochelle Park considers what his body may have to endure when he eventually dies, he’s downright disgusted. “I do not want to be drained and filled with some goop, locked in a metal casket, then tossed into a cement tomb,” he says. “Umm, hello … […]

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 […]

Eco-friendly funerals break new ground
By Francesca Lyman, MSNBC.com
For some, there’s nothing more ghastly than the idea of having their mortal remains embalmed, sealed in a metal and plastic casket and buried in a cement vault. They’d prefer to be buried “au naturel.” So some companies are thinking outside of the box and offering Earth-friendly burials […]