Forest of Memories

By Cameron Katrina, Myspace Blog

‘Green’ burial includes no embalming and the use of wrapping the body in a shroud or placing them (the deceased) in a completely bio-degradable coffin/casket that can be made of non-treated wood, wicker, or cardboard. Instead of creating large cemeteries that are only used for the dead and the use of valuable land space, conservation cemeteries are popping up across the country.  Here, people can be buried ‘green’ and can have a rose bush, tree, rock, just about anything natural placed to mark where they are buried and will not disrupt the environment.

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By Daniel Barden

THE area’s first new-style woodland burial park is soon to be open in North Weald.

Planners gave the green light for the 52-acre Epping Forest Burial Park last year and now an open day is being held for people to get a first glimpse how the mature woodland cemetery will look.

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BBC News

Concerns have been raised over the lack of natural burial sites in Cornwall. The county currently has one site near Penzance for environmentally friendly burials while Devon has seven sites. The Association for Natural Burial Grounds (ANBG) said the problem was particularly prevalent in Cornwall and the South East.

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Many people prefer not to think about death, maybe hoping that if they don’t think about it, it’ll never happen.

I’m fascinated by death - how it happens, how we deal with it, attitudes towards it. Since 1991 I’ve conducted almost 1000 funerals without religion as a Humanist Celebrant, so I’ve learned a lot about British attitudes to death, dying and bereavement, and a lot of social history. Death doesn’t discriminate - it comes to all classes, all ages, all races.

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BBC News

A town running out of burial space in its churchyard is hoping to set up a memorial website to encourage people to use a natural burial ground nearby.

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By Jonathan Dawson, Newstatesman

There are few surer ways to understand how a culture ticks than to look how it deals with death. In Africa, where I spent much time in the 20 years before coming to live here in Findhorn, the veils that separate the realms of the living and of the ancestors are thin and people pass easily between them.

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The Shropshire Star

At her funeral parlour in Ludlow, she says her final send off will reflect her life: “green” and fun.

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Weston & Somerset Mercury

ECO-FRIENDLY residents could soon be able to bury their relatives in cardboard coffins and swap headstones for trees at alternative burial sites.

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By Tanya McLaren, Forres Gazzette, Scottish Provincial Press

A PLANNING application is being lodged for a green burial area on the edge of the dunelands in Findhorn.The move is being taken by Jonathon Caddy, from the Findhorn Foundation, whose mother, Eileen, died last year and whose ashes are buried on woodlands in the area.

There is already a green burial site operating at Grantown-on-Spey, and there could be plans to site one in woodlands near Forres in the future.

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Trees will create ‘natural gravestones’

By Pam Caulfield, 24dash.com

Conservationists in Gloucester can continue to help the environment after they die. An area of the city council’s New Millennium Cemetery at Coney Hill has been set aside as a natural burial ground.

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