The Centre for Natural Burial

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The most earthly looking eco-burial container that we’ve found is the Capsula Mundi, created by a pair of Italian designers who wanted to remove the taboo from the burial process and give it a new conception.

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.

Jane Wheatley, The Times
Punch the farm dog has died. It was time, really – he was staggering about, very thin and a bit bewildered in his last few days – but still it was shocking, as death always is. Ellie and I had a big cry in the kitchen afterwards. Punch had been lying out […]

By Bruce Watson, Wallet Pop
When I was in high school, I took a class titled “Death and Dying.” In addition to learning about the grieving process and reading afterlife narratives, my class studied the ins and outs of the funeral industry. We inspected coffins, read Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death, hung out in […]

Coffin saleswoman Cynthia Beal is bullish on the Ecopod.
By Steve Goldstein, Obit Magazine
“I’ve had the great experience of feeding people,” said Beal, who formerly owned a natural foods store. “Now I get to compost them.”

By, Are We Green Yet? (Blog)
The latest eco-friendly trend, that can be your last environmentally friendly act before leaving this world, has been labeled green burial.
This new burial process shuns the traditional burial ritual which environmentalist believe is exacting a huge toll on the environment. Embalming injects corpses with formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, that releases […]

By SARAH SKIDMORE, the Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — Cynthia Beal wants to be an Oregon cherry tree after she dies. She has everything to make it happen — a body, a burial site and a biodegradable coffin.
“It is composting at its best,” said Beal, owner of The Natural Burial Company, which will sell a variety […]

By M Nassal, Stress free Productivity.blog
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust– this is a little difficult when the body is laid to rest in a hermetically sealed box. For as long as I can remember the most popular coffins have been those that will outlast the pyramids. Now a company called Natural Burial Company is […]

By APRIL DEMBOSKY, New York Times
This July, when Jorgi Wu was laid to rest in central California, she became the first American to be buried in an Ecopod — a 100 percent biodegradable coffin made of recycled paper. The seedpod-shaped coffin is designed to be planted in the ground, dissolve and replenish the earth with […]

Parmalee Thomas A.. American Funeral Director. 130(3)pp20
It’s a substance most embalmers work with just about every day. But it has managed to cause a storm of controversy in the European Union that has gone largely unnoticed in the United States.