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.
Death goes au naturel
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 much nicer to be talking about it than actually doing it.
And it’s something most of us will have to talk about at some point, no matter how unpleasant the thought might be.
So. when my parents called the other night to say they had preplanned their funerals, while the daughter in me was saddened at the thought, my practical side could see the good sense of it all.
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