The Centre for Natural Burial

By Jerri Stroud
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
The Texas Department of Insurance has placed National Prearranged Services Inc. of Clayton and two affiliated insurance companies in receivership, the department said Friday.

When It Comes to Honoring the Dead, If It’s Not ‘Dangerous or Illegal,’
Tyler Cassity Will Do It
By John Berman and Sarah Rosenberg, ABC News
Imagine a burial with no casket or tombstone, incessant chanting, and no embalming. Such ceremonies are not only occurring in distant countries with distinctive cultures, but also in the great state of […]

By Kristin Edelhauser, Entrepreneur Daily
Halloween is just around the corner, which makes this entrepreneurial story that much more timely. In the past, we’ve featured entrepreneurs making a living off of funerals and burials. ABC’s Nightline  recently featured another entrepreneur making a living off of death.

Can a burial business still be eco-friendly if its new biodegradable caskets are brought in on cargo ships from China?
By LAUREN SMILEY, SF Weekly.com
People have doubted Six Feet Under consultant Tyler Cassity’s environmentalist credentials ever since he broke into the green burial business a few years ago and opened the Forever Fernwood cemetery in Mill […]

Tyler Cassity puts new life back into the business of burial
David Ian Miller, The New York Observer
Tyler Cassity at Fernwood cemetery in Mill Valley. Photo … Tyler Cassity at Fernwood cemetery in Mill Valley. Photo … A green grave site at Fernwood cemetery in Mill Valley. P… Preparing for a green burial at Fernwood cemetery […]

The latest trend in undertaking gives new meaning to the term ‘dust to dust’
By Patricia Leigh Brown, The Sydney Morning Herald
TOMMY Odom’s remains lie on a steep, windswept hill at Fernwood Cemetery, New Jersey, beneath an oak sapling, a piece of petrified wood and a bundle of dried sage tied with a lavender ribbon. When […]

Fernwood Cemetery in Marin County now offers green burials.
By - 30 Minutes Bay Area, CBS-5 (San Francisco)
The green burial movement started in the United Kingdom where there are now about 150 sites. Dr. Billy Campbell founded the US’s first green burial cemetery in Westminster, SC. Opened in 1998, the Ramsey Creek Preserve now has had […]

Lori Valigra, National Geographic News
A burial in outer space seems a fitting farewell for James Doohan, the actor who played the beloved engineer “Scotty” on Star Trek. To honor his final wishes, some of Doohan’s ashes will be shot into space this fall, along with a CD of tributes from fans and loved ones.
Celebrities aren’t […]

By Tad Friend, The New YorkerHow much rest do the dead require? Late this spring, two experts were discussing burial theory over lunch at a Japanese restaurant in Mill Valley, California. The elder man, Ron Hast, had just visited Fernwood, a new “green” cemetery on the edge of town owned by the […]

By Amy Davidson, The New Yorker Magazine
This week in the magazine, Tad Friend writes about the California cemeterian who is trying to redefine the idea of last rites. Here, with Amy Davidson, he talks about green burials, graveyard tourism, and the future of funerals.