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.
Pushing Daisies: Death Goes Green
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, cement liners and a little eau de formaldehyde and other toxins to preserve the glow of the living.
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