With an ever-growing list of ways to deal with human remains, it can be hard to know which method is best for the Earth. Most of us try to be responsible global citizens while we’re alive. We sort ...

The premise of a green burial, say advocates of the practice, is to return us to the Earth, replenish it and help it to outlive us.

The Frederick County Planning Commission on Wednesday approved a site plan for a “natural burial” cemetery, where remains could be interred without the use of embalming chemicals, concrete vaults or, ...

Bayside Cemetery in Potsdam was recently approved by the state to offer 'natural burials' in certain sections of the cemetery. Natural burial is an alternative to traditional, more expensive, and more ...

Steve Ball’s grave was marked not by a granite headstone or marble mausoleum upon the burial of his cremated remains last year, but a flat rock chipped into the shape of a heart. It came from his ...

Rolfstad hopes the association, which also offers green caskets, green urns and other eco-friendly products, will open its own natural burial ground near Seattle within a few years. "Green burial is ...

More than 70 cemeteries across New England have started offering natural burials in recent years, including Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier. That’s where bodies can decompose underground, without ...

Elmwood Cemetery is thought to be the only place in the Kansas City metropolitan area that allows natural burials. JILL TOYOSHIBA The Kansas City Star Sixty years ago last month, several members of ...

Many people are trying to live more environmentally conscious lives. A Sudbury, Ont., funeral home is helping extend those values even following an individual’s death. “It is very much for the ...