Natural Burial Around the World
The modern concept of natural burial began in the UK in 1993 and has since spread across the globe. The Centre for Natural Burial provides comprehensive resources supporting the development of natural burial and detailed information about natural burial in your area:
- Natural Burial in Canada
- Natural Burial in the U.S.A.
- Natural Burial in the United Kingdom and Europe
- Natural Burial in Africa and Asia (coming soon)
Giving Life Back to the Earth
Natural burial is a new idea—the idea that in choosing how and where we are buried, each one of us can conserve, sustain, and protect the earth… the earth from which, we came and to which we shall return.
A natural burial allows you to use your funeral as a conservation tool to create, restore and protect urban green spaces.
- About Natural Burial
- The Truth about Conventional Funerals
- Incineration / Cremation
- Cost / Value Comparison
The Natural Burial Co-operative, Center for Natural Burial promotes natural burial funeral services, and products which enhance, protect, and preserve our natural environment.
Plant Yourself
The Nature of Green Burials
by Sharon Nichols and illustrations by Carol Zaloom, October 27, 2008
In early September, I conducted a random poll of Hudson Valley residents. It read: “What would you like to have done with your body at the time of your death?
A. Conventional burial (embalming, expensive casket, concrete vault)
B. Cremation with embalming
C. Cremation without embalming
D. Sea burial in a metal casket
E. Green burial (no embalming, pine/wicker/cardboard coffin or cloth
shroud, burial in a natural or private cemetery)
If your choice is not listed, it’s probably illegal.”
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