The Centre for Natural Burial

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What a remarkable innovation, astoundingly high-degree green-tech, it’s simple, natural, it’s enviro-friendly and economical for the bereaved, and makes for a right nice parkland too. And gee, it only took us a hundred years to figure it out: People, it turns out, are bio-degradeable …
“The key difference with natural burial is using the trees […]

By Ken Hashizume, Bayshore Broadcasting Corp
Giving people the option of going au naturel when it comes to being laid to rest.
Mike Salisbury — President and Founder of the Natural Burial Co-Operative — came to Arran-Elderslie Council yesterday and presented a plan to set up Canada’s first natural burial ground along a piece of property on […]

Could be country’s first cemetery where bodies decompose naturally and a tree is planted overtop instead of a headstone
By SCOTT DUNN, The Sun Times
Paisley could be the location of Canada’s first natural burial cemetery.
Going “natural” dispenses with expensive caskets and there’s no embalming. It’s a burial with a simpler casket or shroud with an added […]

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 […]

Caskets of wicker and recycled paper in fields of flowers: finally, eco-burial comes to Canada
BARBARA RIGHTON, Macleans Magazine
It sits on a warehouse shelf in Burnaby, B.C., an anomaly among the burnished hardwoods. Six feet long and made of green wicker, it is Gordon Robchan’s lone attempt to sell something other than the traditional caskets he […]

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 […]

The buzz grows around environmentally friendly choices
Johanna Weidner, Waterloo Record
Aspen Heisey wants her body to return to the earth, to decay naturally in a natural setting. Her burial would ideally be in a biodegradable casket, with no embalming fluid, and in a wooded area where it’s enjoyable to spend time.
Above all, she wants her death […]

By Theresa Lalonde, CBC Radio, “Sounds Like Canada”
Canada has an active green burial movement. Members have been pushing for eco-friendly funerals for years. And beginning next year, the first official green burial sites will open.

By Tara, cowgirl you got that something…blog
Kind of a strange topic switch but my husband and I have been doing a lot of talking about death and funerals lately. Neither of us is real big on the whole stuffy formal funeral ritual but in this day and age it remains more or less the norm. […]

BY ALISON RAMSEY, Readers Digest Magazine
There are currently no designated natural burial cemeteries in Canada where everything put into the earth is decomposable (such as all-wood caskets), nothing contaminates the soil (no embalming fluids are used) and the ground is not groomed or laden with pesticides and herbicides. Yet you can still take steps to […]