The Centre for Natural Burial

Pam Frampton, The Telegram
“Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom — all, which makes death a hideous show.”
— Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), English poet and social critic
Let’s get this straight: there’s nothing funny about death. But I think we can all agree that’s it’s […]

Andover Advertiser,Hampshire Business
IT does what it says on the can and that’s why it was chosen as one of the winners in this year’s Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sustainable Business Awards.
East Meon’s Sustainability Centre was named as Small Business of the Year, a category sponsored by Business Link, when the awards were presented by […]

A realistic look at green burial practices
BY STEPHANIE DROSTE-PACKHAM FOR GREENING OF OIL
We are constantly thinking of ways to reduce our carbon footprint. We change our light bulbs to the more efficient squiggly ones, we use our reusable water bottles, and we recycle. But just think of the ultimate of ultimate green moves: an environmentally […]

The Natural Burial Expo 2010 is being held on Saturday, April 24 and Sunday April 25, 2010 at St. Paul’s Christian Church in Raleigh, NC. Organizers report that this is the first event of its kind on the East Coast. It is being organized in response to the growing concern about the fragility of the […]

By Shannon C., Calgary Urbanite
Death, my Buddhist teacher likes to remind me, is a natural part of life. This is true until you get buried or cremated. At that point the multi-billion dollar funeral industry takes over, providing the deceased with satin-lined wood coffins festooned with brass accents (for the discriminating loved one), cement gravestones, […]

A natural burial area has been officially opened at Enfield in Adelaide.
Natural burials use a shroud or biodegradable coffin and bodies are not treated with chemicals. Funeral director Kevin Hartley says there has been plenty of interest in natural burial plots. “We’ve been conducting natural shroud burials since January last year and business has grown […]

Inauguration Scheduled for Saturday, January 31
Green Burial Council Exec, others to speak at Moles Greenacres Memorial Park in Ferndale, WA
Ferndale, WA — January 23, 2009 — Moles Family Funeral Homes and Greenacres Memorial
Park, Whatcom County’s family-owned provider of funeral services for four generations, is announcing the
inauguration of The Meadow, Western Washington’s first natural burial ground. […]

The Meadow, a new, natural burial ground, opens this week in Ferndale
By KRISTIN DIZON, Seatle PI
Giving added meaning to the phrase “pushing daisies,” Western Washington’s first green cemetery opens this week.
The Meadow, a natural burial ground in Ferndale, will inter unembalmed bodies in a simple, biodegradable coffin or shroud, without concrete vaults or liners. It […]

Former EastEnders star Wendy Richard, who was buried in a wicker coffin, has brought greener funerals into the spotlight. Kate Hodal looks at green funerals, from being laid to rest in bamboo to having your body “promessed”
By, The Press and Journal
THE recent funeral of former EastEnders star Wendy Richard was always going to attract attention, […]

Reno has Nevada’s only funeral home certified by the Green Burial Council
By Kat Kerlin
In Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman wrote, “I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles.”
To decompose and return to the earth is natural for all living […]