By Megan Heidlberg, WNEG32
A trail in Westminster, South Carolina, isn’t your typical forest trail. It’s actually a burial ground too. Scattered amongst the trees, leaves, and waterfall lies more than 20 graves.
September 27, 2004
September 23, 2004
Group aims for ’green cemetery’ in Otsego County
By Tom Grace, Cooperstown News Bureau
Bill Ralston of Cooperstown said that after he’s dead, he wants his body to decay gradually and become part of nature at his final resting place.
He doesn’t want an expensive funeral or fancy casket, and he’d like to skip the embalming fluid, please. If others paused a moment to consider their options at life’s end, they might agree that the natural way is best, he said.
September 19, 2004
Returning to the earth
LEONORA LaPETER, St. Petersburg TimesGLENDALE - Robert Pridgen lay in the vegetable cooler, in a poplar box cut from nearby trees. Lung cancer had taken him the day before. He was 48.
September 16, 2004
Dispose of Properly
By Lindy T. Shepherd, Orlando Weekly
Sooner or later, we’re all going to die. Even Democrats and Republicans aren’t divided on this one. But what happens to us after we die is another story altogether. We’re not talking about esoteric interpretations of a soulful afterlife, or the lack thereof, but the nuts and bolts of respectfully disposing of a loved one’s body after death – removal, transport and burial. Creeped out by talk of corpses? Don’t you know? The grim subject of mortuary science isn’t taboo anymore, it’s on HBO.