Grand Prairie Cemetery in Marion is adding green burial options and a new cremation area to lower costs and impact.

Green burials have been growing in popularity across the United States in recent years. Green burial is an alternative to embalming bodies, or cremation, and often looks like being buried in a ...

ROCHESTER — The generation known for challenging social norms and traditions is dying to change another industry. Green burials are becoming more in demand as baby boomers plan their deaths. Industry ...

The Carlton County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to extend a moratorium on green burials for another year. The moratorium extension approved Tuesday, June 9 prohibits the ...

The idea is when you die, they dig a hole, wrap your body and lay it in the ground to decompose naturally. There are places to do this around the Triangle, including Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh. It ...

Concerns about the environment seem to be entering almost every industry, and the "death care" — or funeral — industry is no exception. The "green burial" movement is catching on in the United States.

A sprawling 20-acre hayfield in rural Minnesota was meant to become a green cemetery where loved ones could be buried in a more environmentally friendly manner. But as word of the project spread, ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - In life, Patrick Ytsma made it a point to minimize his drag on the environment, in part by riding his bike nearly everywhere he went. So it was fitting that when he died at 53, after ...

Emily Ecker, left, and Monica Mann, both of Woodstock, walk the path to a proposed green burial site Dec. 30, 2022, at Nute-Stephens Cemetery on Twitchell Road in Woodstock. Rose Lincoln/The Bethel ...

Each day, Americans visit cemeteries to honor their loved ones. However, cemeteries are also the site of mass pollution, with almost a million gallons of embalming fluid and enough steel to build the ...

Thanks for the question Wormy, I’ve often wondered about that too – when it’s my time I would like to become a skeleton and do the danse macabre on Halloweens like in the old Disney “Skelton Dance” ...