Check out these resources if you want to learn more!
Visit These Natural Burial Cemetery Websites (US)
Duck Run (Penn Laird, VA)
Natural Path Sanctuary (Verona, WI)
Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery (Gainesville, FL)
Vermont Forest Cemetery (Roxbury, VT)
Larkspur Conservation (Nashville, TN)
Bluestem (Cedar Grove, NC)
Carolina Memorial Sanctuary (Mills River, NC)
Ramsey Creek Preserve (Westminster, SC)
Casper Creek Natural Cemetery (Elizabeth, IL)
The Forest Conservation Burial Ground (Ashland, Oregon)
Books On Natural Burial
(Available at the Iowa City Public Library)
Our Last Best Act: Planning for the End of Our Lives to Protect the People and Places We Love (Mallory McDuff)
Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death (Joshua Slocum and Lisa Carlson)
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial (Mark Harris)
The Natural Burial Cemetery Guide (Ann Hoffner)
The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan and Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial (Elizabeth Fournier)
Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials (Lucinda Herring)
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial (Kathryn Mannix)
Related Books (Available at the Iowa City Public Library)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Caitlyn Doughty)
From Here to Eternity (Caitlyn Doughty)
`Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? (Caitlyn Doughty)
The American Way of Death Revisited (Jessica Mittford)
For One More Day (Mitch Albom)
Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul (Stephen Jenkinson)
Check out these resources if you want to learn more!
Articles and Videos Related to Death & Dying
Blue Ridge News: Stories of New Life at Carolina Memorial Sanctuary (Shaun Moore)
Your Microbes Live On After You Die a Microbiologist Explains How Your Necrobiome Recycles Your Body to Nourish New Life
Human Composting Guide
Aquamation / Alkaline Hydrolysis / Water Cremation (A much lower carbon footprint alternative to flame cremation)
Death, et seq: A blog and podcast about the relationship between the living and the dead (Tanya Marsh, Professor of Cemetery Law at Wake Forest University School of Law)
Natural Burial Organizations
Landmatters (Resources and Education)
A Greener Funeral (Resources and Education)
The Green Burial Council (Certifying Organization)
Conservation Burial Alliance (Resource and Education)
Natural Burial in the News (YouTube videos)
Green Burials Catch on Around the World
Tour a Green Cemetery (Detroit: Local 4 News)
Green Burials on the rise in Maine
Forever Green Cemeteries Offer Natural Burials (Rhinebeck, NY)
Green Burial - KQED Quest
Ask a Mortician: Traditional vs. Natural Burial
Natural Burials & Green Funerals (Legacy: CA)
No casket? No problem! Some Tenn residents... (WVLT: TN)
Colorado's green cemetery helps people return to the earth
Ask a Mortician: Eco Death Takeover (28.5 minutes)