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, June 20, 2008

Green Cemetery for Cremated Remains Goes to Ground in Pennsylvania

No natural cemetery on par with Ramsey Creek has taken root in Pennsylvania – at least not yet. Two days ago, though, a German company cons...

Friday, June 13, 2008

Finding the Green Cemetery Coming to You

Ramsey Creek Preserve was the lone natural cemetery in this country when I began reporting on the green burial movement almost a decade ago....

Friday, June 06, 2008

Mary Tyler Moore Gets Eulogy Right

As I listened to the funeral director offer bromides about the brother of an elderly friend at the wake I attended this week, I found myself...

Friday, May 30, 2008

Note to Funeral Industry: Green Burial No Mere Fad

A reporter I spoke to recently told me a funeral director had said that green burial was just a "fad" and, like most fads, would f...

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