The Centre for Natural Burial

Assistant director, The Natural Death Centre, 48
Interview by Sonia Zhuravlyova
I believe…
The future of funerals lies in natural burial grounds. You are returned to the ground in a biodegradable coffin and a tree is planted next to you. It appeals to those who are non-religious and want something simple.

By Emma, We Love Panda’s blog
Mum’s funeral took place last Monday at Tarn Moor near Skipton, West Yorkshire. Tarn Moor is a green burial site with 10 acres of land that is being turned into woodland. They have active conservation principles and ask all coffins to be biodegradable. Tarn Moor is set in a stunning […]

By Dan Goater, Dorset Echo
farmers are set to turn a lush meadow into a green’ burial site. Peter and Jo Vassie have just gained planning permission from West Dorset District Council to convert agricultural land at Underhill farm, Corscombe.
Mrs Vassie says the 13-acre burial site will offer an alternative, environmentally-friendly option for people with or […]

St Magaret’s Church, at Thorpe Market, near Cromer, is a finalist in a national search to find the best village church which has adapted to serve the wider needs of the community.
By RICHARD BATSON, EDP24
A decade ago the quaint flint-faced country church was in danger of closure - but its revival at the heart of […]

By Gail Robinson, The Star
ECO-minded folk who want to be environmentally-friendly even after death will soon be able to have a green burial in Barnsley. The scheme, which should be launched this summer, will see part of Barnsley Cemetery used for the new approach, which Coun Roy Miller, Cabinet spokesman for Environmental Services, says will […]

Walking the Berkshires, Blog
When you “shuffle off this mortal coil, turn your body back to soil” as Loudin Wainwright III acidly puts it in the lyrics to “Suicide Song”, will you still have a carbon footprint?  How green is your cemetery?   The Funeral Consumers Alliance of Eastern Massachusetts is a strong believer in going out […]

By Times & Star
OBJECTORS packed Lorton’s Yew Tree Hall on Tuesday as the planning inquiry into a controversial plan for a woodland burial site in the valley got underway.
Planning inspector Wenda Fabian conducted the inquiry into plans by Essex Firm Woodland Burial Services Ltd to create more than 3,000 burial plots on a site near […]

By Sheena Hastings, Yorkshire post
‘I want to look my best, with my hair done nicely, with a fringe, and some lipstick.’
PAM Jackson is hale and hearty. Like many 80-year-olds, she takes a few pills, but she has no particular reason to suppose she will slip this mortal coil in the very near future. All the […]

By Andrew Shirley, Farmers weekly
Fifteen years ago, there was one green cemetery in the UK. Now there are 223. Two-thirds of us, according to a recent poll, would prefer a woodland or meadow burial.

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 […]