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Tag Archives: Green Burial
Cremation Rates Exploding In The United States
More Americans are choosing cremation over burial for its environmental and economic benefits
In 1960, about 3.6 percent of the population opted for cremation. However, that number has risen steadily ever since. The Cremation Association of North America reports that in 2014, the national cremation rate reached 46.7 percent. That’s an astounding 1211.80 percent … Continue reading
What is an Undertaker? An Interview with Patrick McNally, Part One
A funeral director gives his unique perspective on end-of-life rituals
Today, SevenPonds is speaking with Patrick McNally, the outspoken and creative funeral director behind the blog The Daily Undertaker, which explores ritual and art surrounding death and dying. In this first installment of our interview, Patrick reveals his honest insight into the funeral … Continue reading
A New Concept in Green Burials
A Brooklyn, New York company is developing a "mushroom suit" to be worn after death
A New York-based company, Coeio, is experimenting with a new concept in green burials — mushrooms — or more specifically, a “mushroom suit.” According to company cofounders Jae Rhim Lee and Michael Ma, the suit and other burial products Coeio … Continue reading
Why is Death Midwifery Important? An Interview with Pashta MaryMoon, Part Three
A Canadian Death Midwife shares a lifetime of insight
Today in the final installment of a three-part interview (read part one here and part two here), SevenPonds speaks with Pashta MaryMoon, Death Midwife at Journeys Beyond, and co-founder of CINDEA (Canadian Integrated Network of Death Education and Alternatives). Topics … Continue reading
What American Indian Burial Rituals Can Teach Us
Green burial is all the rage today, but many Native American tribes continue to practice it as they have for thousands of years
In these days of increasing eco-conscious, less-is-more aestheticism, many of those preparing for an end-of-life are beginning to question the need for elaborate caskets, garish flower displays and environmentally unsound cemeteries. Home funerals too, that is, the family keeping, cleaning … Continue reading
Growing Wild: The Path to Natural Burial
Eloise Woods Natural Burial Park allows the dead to become one with the forest
In Eloise Woods Natural Burial Park, of Cedar Creek, Texas, there are no headstones or mausoleums. GPS coordinates mark the plots and there are detailed paper maps, but the monuments that display gravesites in conventional cemeteries do not exist at … Continue reading
