Forest of Memories

The Globe and Mail. Toronto

Travelling to the sweet hereafter doesn’t really require a coffin able to withstand ‘a direct nuclear strike.’ In fact, MARY AMBROSE reports, shunning high-cost funeral options is not only eco-friendly — it’s all the rage

When their mother died recently, Bill and Kirk Fuller didn’t know what kind of funeral to arrange. They had tried to discuss it with her, but Patricia Fuller was elderly and “despite a fair amount of urging,” son Bill says, “she didn’t give directions to us. So we made a decision.”

They buried her at Fernwood, the largest “green” cemetery in the United States.

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By Mark Pothier, The Boston Globe

MILL VALLEY, Calif. — Death-care trends usually sweep from west to east, funeral industry officials say. Cremation rates in Oregon and Washington have surpassed 60 percent and in Marin County, Calif., it is about 80 percent. The Cremation Society of Los Angeles even allows arrangements to be made by fax or phone.

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Press Democrat“So many people want to be a tree.”

– Tyler Cassity, cemetery entrepreneur

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