Green Burial Council

The Green Burial organization partners with land trusts, park service agencies and the funeral

profession to help consumers get the greenest burial experience possible. This type of "Green Funeral"

helps to reducing toxins, waste and carbon emissions. Many of the group’s member cemeteries—you

can find a directory on the Green Burial Council’s website—offer families the option of burying loved

ones in more natural landscapes uncluttered by headstones and mausoleums. In place of a traditional

headstone, for example, a tree might be planted over the grave and equipped with GPS coordinates.

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PDF brochure with detailed information about

And instead of conventional wood and steel coffins, families can bury loved ones in more biodegradable

wicker or cardboard, or in a casket made of wood certified as sustainably harvested by the nonprofit

Forest Stewardship Council. Advocates of such greener burials say that people take comfort in

knowing their bodies will decompose and become part of the cycle of nature.

Even the practice of scattering ashes at sea can be performed in a "Green Funeral" method.

Florida-based Great Burial Reef will place urns with cremated remains within 100 percent natural,

PH-balanced concrete artificial reefs placed at the bottom of the ocean. And Georgia-based Eternal

Reefs will mix your ashes with the cement they use to create “reef balls”—hollow spheres that

resemble giant Wiffle balls that are sunk offshore. Loved ones equipped with the GPS

coordinates can boat or even dive to visit the site of the remains.

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Foxfield Preserve (Brochures are also available
to pick up at any of our
convenient locations.)