Forest of Memories

Woodland burial grounds are fast becoming the resting place of choice.

By Jonny Beardsall, The Telegraph

Woodland burials are the future. With growing demand for spaces in conventional cemeteries, as well as rising maintenance costs and increasing problems of vandalism, more and more people are coming round to the idea of ending up under a tree instead of a dreary headstone. But should you die soon and have no woodland burial site close by - and there are only about 200 in Britain - your relatives may be forced to overlook your last wishes.

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In search of an earth-friendly burial

By Linda Falkenstein, The Isthmus Daily

You’d expect any place called the Gardens of Eternal Peace Mausoleum to be peaceful. Maybe too peaceful. In the central area of the Y-shaped building, rows of chairs face a large modernist mural of angular praying people. A soft symphonic version of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” wafts from invisible speakers. Lining the walls are white marble squares with discreet brass lettering. Behind the marble squares, of course, lie the bodies of the dead.

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By Darise Jean-Baptiste, The Ithaca Journal

NEWFIELD - For almost a month, BOCES welding students Shayne Jackson and Travis Darling have dedicated afew hours of their school days to create the “pallbearer’s  friend” - an aluminum cart with wheels and handles that will allow six people to easily transport caskets to gravesites.

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