The Centre for Natural Burial

by Ecoshakeflashlight
I live 3 blocks from one of the only Urban Sugar Shack…I think in Canada. I have spent many hours walking my dog, lying on logs, gazing up at the tree canopy, and … peering through the fence at the new burials in the cemetery beside the forest.
For years I’ve been wondering about contamination […]

Shannon Beahen, Ottawa Xpress
How we die says a lot about how we live
This issue is our first Art of Living special and for it we’ve chosen stories that look at some unique or artful ways some of us choose to live: It may be where we skateboard, where we meet others of the same ideology, […]

Electronically translated (AKA, very poorly translated) from French
By Sophie Massé, Urbania
Raoul Bretzel and Anna Citelli, two Italian designers, are proud to present Capsuled it Mundi. An organic coffin. A large egg of bioplastic which can accommodate the body in foetal position

Le décès écologique expliqué aux vivants
Texte : Sophie Massé
Vous pourriez quitter votre vie terrestre réduit en compost, à bord d’un grand oeuf ou d’un sarcophage en papier recyclé. Et que diriez-vous de léguer votre ADN à une plante ?

By Bridget Wayland, Harrowsmith Country Life Magazine
You recycle. You carpool. You go organic. If you re an ecoconscious person, you try to minimize your impact on the planet every chance you get. How ironic, then, if all the virtuous principles you lived by get overturned in the end-the very end.

The Vancouver Sun
Want to be kind to Mother Nature in death as in life? Consider planning a green burial.
Bodies are interred unembalmed in a biodegradable casket or shroud and graves do not contain liners, to allow remains to break down naturally. Graves may be marked by the planting of wildflowers or shrubs. The Ontario-based Natural […]

Eco-friendly burials eschew headstones, embalming and pricey caskets made from exotic imported wood
By Nancy J. White, Toronto Star
Imagine a gently sloping hill covered with fallen leaves, green ferns and bright wildflowers, the branches of sturdy oaks and maples arching overhead. Birds chirp in the trees. Squirrels and chipmunks scamper on the ground.
Now imagine yourself buried […]

By Peter Nowak and Emily Mathieu. National Post.
Cremation? How boring. From being shot into space to being turned into jewellery, here are 10 creative ways to be launched into the next world

By Rebecca James, Syracuse Post-Standard
Susan Thomas’ dog bounds across the field, leaping out of the underbrush that covers the southern Tompkins County hilltop, intent on the scent of some small creature. Meanwhile, Thomas and Ed Oyer talk about death. The artist and the retired professor both like the idea of finding stone benches for this […]