Our natural burial meadow in Aylesbury Vale is an expansive meadow surrounded by mature hedges and trees under magnificently big skies.
Cost-saving tips and funeral director etiquette to remember when planning a funeral. Here is some advice to help you during this difficult time.
Green funerals are a holistic way of celebrating a loved one’s life, respecting the environment by using natural materials. Learn more in our introduction.
Our Seagrass Coffins are woven by hand and are a beautiful compliment, rustic and natural, with subtle green and blue tones.
What is a woodland burial ground A woodland burial ground also called a natural burial ground, is an alternative to a traditional, church yeard burial.
Several companies are making eco-friendly funerals easier by creating biodegradable urns.
[Episcopal News Service] When John Christian Phifer talks about his work at Tennessee’s first conservation cemetery, he first provides context by describing t
Modern burial practices are an environmental nightmare. Toxic chemicals from the embalming process leach into the air and soil.
RIP Peeping Tom. You will never be forgotten.
A Los Angeles undertaker wants to end our estrangement from death by bringing corpses back home.
Join us on our quest to separate myth from reality in our search for the perfect journey into the afterlife. We all know Viking funerals, right? We’ve seen it on screen: a body – generally
Last weekend, at the farewell ceremony for the late actress Kirin Kiki, a large display of white flowers, designed to look like a wave, greeted the constant flow of family members, fans and celebrities that had come to pay their respects, and to say farewell to the 75-year old who had passed away from cancer on September 15. The white wave of flowers was comprised of roughly 1200 chrysanthemums, orchids, and gypsophila (an ornamental flower known as baby’s-breath in the West). More
Image 6 of 23 from gallery of Ingelheim Funeral Chapel / Bayer & Strobel Architekten. Courtesy of Bayer & Strobel Architekten
Carolyn reflects on losing her husband and deciding on what to do with the ashes. She offers some advice and lists 60 beautiful ideas.
Somewhere in Kent, tucked anonymously into acres of warehouses and light-industrial workshops, the first full-service human-composting funeral home in the United States is operational.
Image 12 of 23 from gallery of Ingelheim Funeral Chapel / Bayer & Strobel Architekten. Courtesy of Bayer & Strobel Architekten
“Hopefully the funeral industry will see this and will reflect upon what their facilities could be like,” says one architect behind the project.
As cemeteries turn into landfills, Americans are turning to less destructive ways to bury the dead.
