Don’t pollute soils and water with your dead, formaldehyde-injected body encased within a metal and hardwood-laden casket. Instead, consider a green burial that won’t pollute soils and water, nor bury precious resources. With green burials you save money and resources as your dead body generates life rather than more death by adding fertility not toxins to the soil.

Publications

Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial, by Mark Harris. Scribner, 2007.

Caring For the Dead: A Complete Guide for Those Making Funeral Arrangements with or without a Funeral Director, by Lisa Carlson. Upper Access Books, 1998.

“The Impact of Cemetaries on the Environment and Public Health – An Introductory Briefing,” WHO Regional Office of Europe, 1998. EUR/HFA target 23

Online

www.greenburialcouncil.org
They set standards for and certify providers of green burials in which no water- and soil-contaminating chemical toxins are used. The planting of trees is encouraged as a living monument.

www.honeycreekwoodlands.com
I found this to be an exemplary green/conservation burial ground located close to Atlanta, Georgia.