Mortality comes calling for all of us eventually. When your time comes, will your burial arrangements help the planet?

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 ...

Like most activities that are performed with skill and elegance, natural burial is an art, and the artists are many and varied. They play critical roles throughout the entire implementation of a ...

Diane Holick has long known she doesn’t want to be buried in a box after she dies. Nor does she want to be cremated. Instead, she wants what’s known as a natural burial, a type of funeral that eschews ...

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Natural burial services are family directed, so the most important artists in a ceremony are the friends and family members of the deceased. They often bring to the service their own letters, poems, ...