Victoria Times - Colonist.
Cremation or burial in a glossy casket?
It’s not much of a choice for people who don’t like the idea of spending eternity in an urn or surrounded by the hard, grey concrete of a cemetery. Better instead to quickly become one with the soil in a natural woodland setting, said Mildred MacLeod of Nanaimo.
“There’s a movement to bury people in their natural state, without concrete (grave) liners. No monuments, just shrubs and trees,” said MacLeod, board member and spokeswoman of the Memorial Society of B.C.