Dec. 21—ANDERSON — Grieving families tasked with laying a loved one to rest normally can choose from among conventional burial, cremation, or donating the body to science. Maplewood Cemetery has ...

An Auburn-based organization has proposed creating an ecologically-friendly, "green" cemetery — possibly the first in New England — in a leafy Maine town overlooking the Penobscott River. The concept ...

Nearly half of all people who died nationally last year were cremated and about 36 percent of Arkansans were cremated, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. Industry insiders expect ...

NISKAYUNA — The state’s first Catholic natural burial preserve opened a week ago at the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery. The Kateri Meadows Natural Burial Preserve sold its first plot last Friday to a ...

From the rural road in Windsor Mill, a small sign and a gravel driveway mark the entrance to Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum. It doesn't look much like a cemetery from the roadway ...

An eco-conscious lifestyle doesn’t have to end at the grave. Seriously. Like buying a hybrid car, shopping for organic produce and using paraben-free beauty products, green burials not only exist — ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> A cemetery doesn’t have to mean ornate headstones and metal coffins underfoot; natural burials can be as simple as a walk in the woods or a field left to its own natural devices.

To Mark Manendo, the ground cover that surrounds his father’s gravestone is fraught with meaning. “Natural grass is a lot nicer than everything else,” said the assemblyman, who with Sen. Warren Hardy, ...

SUMNER COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – Tennessee’s first conservation burial ground has been approved in Sumner County. Conservation burials use natural or green burials to save land, excluding anything that ...

LAGRANGE, Ga. (WRBL) — Whispering Hills Natural Cemetery is hosting its “Down to Earth” fair for the community to attend this weekend. The fair is scheduled to be held on Saturday, April 26 from 11 ...

A new cemetery providing natural burials was recently opened in the Netherlands after years of preparation. The Trappistine Sisters of the Abbey of Koningsoord came up with the idea as a place of ...