The Centre for Natural Burial

Peter Lauria, New York Post
The nascent field of “green funerals” scored a publicity coup with last week’s episode of HBO’s “Six Feet Under.”
On the show, the main character Nate Fisher, is buried in the green style, which theorizes that upon death our bodies should be returned to earth in a way that […]

By Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times
MILL VALLEY, Calif. - Tommy Odom’s remains lie on a steep wind-swept hill at Forever Fernwood, beneath an oak sapling, a piece of petrified wood and a bundle of dried sage tied with a lavender ribbon.
When he died in a traffic accident last year, Mr. Odom, 41, became the […]

Video biographies are the hottest commodities in the death-care industry these days. Played at funerals, posted to the web, they give our lives an eternal place in cyberspace

Martin Miller, Los Angeles Times / Calgary Herald
Dying is easy, the death-care industry is hard.
That’s the grim news from the International Cemetery and Funeral Association, […]

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 […]

By Bobby Caina Calvan, The Boston GlobeMILL VALLEY, Calif. - The organic movement has long been a way of life for California’s north coast, and now a Marin County cemetery is taking things further: a “green” cemetery that touts biodegradable caskets, the wilderness, and a back-to-nature approach to taking care of the […]

By Peter Fimrite, the San Francisco Chronicle
Marsha Goldberg has every intention of pushing up daisies when she dies. Daisies, wildflowers and a big redwood tree, too.
Goldberg is calling dibs on her choice of burial sites on a hilly, forested 32-acre stretch of land in Mill Valley, where she is making plans to become fertilizer at […]

Trail Times
In what may be the ultimate expression of back to nature, three entrepreneurs are creating what they say is California’s first organic cemetery, hoping their ban on floral arrangements and formaldehyde will serve as a national model.

Irreverence and death don’t mix. Unless you’re the Cassity brothers, who bring a show-biz sensibility to the staid funeral business.
By Bill Barol, CNN Money.com (FORTUNE Small Business)
It’s a bright clear winter morning in Los Angeles. A windstorm blew in the night before, scattering huge palm fronds across the green expanse of Hollywood Forever cemetery, but […]

The Los Angeles Times
There’s a growing movement in the United States toward nature- friendly burials where people will find their final resting place among trees, on acres of green, in a pine box … or just the way God made ‘em.

By Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times
When it came time to bury his father, Billy Campbell wanted a plain pine box - no frills, no satin lining, no filigree. But the only wood casket at his local mortuary was a varnished beauty of Spanish oak that would have been suitable for the leader of a small […]