Grave Matters - A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial

Updates on the green burial movement, including green cemeteries, natural burial grounds, cremation, green and eco caskets, backyard burial, reef balls, and home funerals.

Friday, November 30, 2007

A Natural Cemetery Grows in Maine

Add Maine to the small but growing list of states that can boast of green burial grounds within their borders. Located just south of Bangor,...

Friday, November 16, 2007

Ramsey Creek Redux

The Ramsey Creek Preserve , as enthusiasts of natural burial know, is the first -- and until recently only -- green cemetery in the United S...

Friday, October 19, 2007

Green Burial: An Idea as Old as the Hills

What we call green burial -- that is, the burial of an unembalmed body that's placed in a basic, biodegradable casket which is then lowe...

Friday, October 12, 2007

Green Burial in Pictures

I spilled close to 100,000 words describing various green burials in Grave Matters. Few of them, though, come close to showing off the idea ...

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