Going green, one last time From cardboard caskets to the absence of harmful chemicals, some people choose to minimize the impact to the environment after they die. When Joan Pillsbury’s grandfather died, the family held a viewing, had a funeral—the

Earth Matters: Green burial in a conservation cemetery Daily Hampshire Gazette Imagine your favorite walking path through a quiet forest or a scenic meadow, the songbirds flitting among tall grasses, at rest in the morning dew. Your natural pathway winds

Green burials: Cemetery commissioners discuss natural alternatives for Cape Cod WELLFLEET — More and more businesses are looking at ways of going green. On the Cape, that could also eventually include cemeteries. The town’s Cemetery Commission invited commissioners from other

Whose Green Burial Is It Anyway? Part of a series The Death Gap: End-Of-Life Inequality This article is part of a series The Death Gap: End-Of-Life Inequality, a collaboration between The Order Of The Good Death and The Collective For Radical Death Studies . The series

Eastham Explores Option of Green Burials Select Board supports concept of less expensive, environmentally friendly burials and will consider offering town-owned property for them. EASTHAM — The town may follow the lead of Brewster and Provincetown in offering green burials

Environmentally Conscious Great Barrington Embraces ‘Green Burials’ Conventional burial is the more common method of burial in the U.S. But 90 percent of people elsewhere in the world are buried directly in the earth, Great Barrington — If you’ve lived in

Life After Death: What Human Burial Options Will Look Like in a Sustainable Future Embalming, cremation and casket-making are far from eco-friendly. Some researchers want to return human bodies to the earth naturally. This story appeared in the September/October 2020

Green burials adapt to protect ‘death care’ workers in the time of pandemic As health care workers battle a pandemic with a limited supply of personal protective equipment, the problem persists for those who bury the pandemic’s dead. LOS ANGELES