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  Berryville, VA 22611

  www.virginiatrappists.org

  (540) 955-4816

  Duck Run Natural Cemetery (Natural)

  3173 Spotswood Trail

  Harrisonburg, VA 22801

  http://duckruncemetery.com

  (540) 432-8650

  Forest Rest Natural Cemetery (Natural)

  5970 Grassy Hill Road

  Boones Mill, VA 24065

  http://forestrestnaturalcemetery.com

  (540) 334-5410

  The Meadow Natural Burial Ground (Natural)

  959 Ross Road

  Lexington, VA 24450

  http://themeadowlexingtonva.com

  (540) 460-4180

  WASHINGTON

  Cedar Lawns Memorial Park (Hybrid)

  7200 180th Avenue NE

  Redmond, WA 98052

  www.dignitymemorial.com/cedar-lawns-funeral-home/en-us/index.page

  (425) 885-2414

  Fern Prairie Cemetery (Hybrid)

  25700 NE Robinson Road

  Camas, WA 98607

  www.fpcemetery.org

  (360) 833-9176

  Herland Forest (Natural)

  55 Windward Lane

  Wahkiacus, WA 98670

  www.herlandforest.org

  (509) 369-2000

  The Meadow Natural Burial Grounds (Natural)

  5700 Northwest Drive

  Ferndale, WA 98248

  http://molesfarewelltributes.com/77/The_Meadow_at_Greenacres.html

  (360) 384-3401

  White Eagle Memorial Preserve Cemetery (Conservation)

  401 Ekone Road

  Goldendale, WA 98620

  http://naturalburialground.org

  (206) 383-3285

  Woodlawn Cemetery (Hybrid)

  7509 Riverview Road

  Snohomish, WA 98290

  http://woodlawncemeterysnohomish.com/Woodlawn_Cemetery/Green_Burial_At_Woodlawn.html

  (360) 568-5560

  WISCONSIN

  Circle Cemetery (Natural)

  5354 Meadowvale Road

  Barneveld, WI 53507

  www.circlesanctuary.org

  (608) 924-2216

  Forest Home Cemetery (Hybrid)

  2405 W Forest Home Avenue

  Milwaukee, WI 53215

  www.foresthomecemetery.com

  (414) 645-2632

  Greenwood Cemetery (Hybrid)

  2615 W Cleveland Avenue

  Milwaukee, WI 53215

  www.greenwoodjewishcemetery.org

  (414) 645-1390

  Natural Path Sanctuary (Natural)

  The Farley Center

  2299 Spring Rose Road

  Verona, WI 53593

  http://naturalpathsanctuary.org

  (608) 845-8724

  Prairie Green Section of Greenwood Jewish Cemetery (Natural)

  2615 W Cleveland Avenue

  Milwaukee, WI 53215

  www.greenwoodjewishcemetery.org/jewish-green-burial-milwaukee-wisconsin

  (414) 645-1390

  Prairie Home Cemetery (Hybrid)

  605 S Prairie Avenue

  Waukesha, WI 53186

  www.prairiehomecemetery.com

  (262) 524-3540

  CANADIAN PROVINCES

  BRITISH COLUMBIA

  Denman Island Natural Burial Cemetery (Natural)

  6400 Denman Road

  Denman Island, BC V0R 1T0

  http://dinbc.ca

  (250) 335-1786

  Mountain View Cemetery (Hybrid)

  5455 Fraser Street

  Vancouver, BC V5W 2Z3

  mountain.view@vancouver.ca

  (604) 325-2646

  Royal Oak Burial Park (Hybrid)

  4673 Falaise Drive

  Victoria, BC V8Y 1B4

  www.robp.ca

  (250) 658-5621

  ONTARIO

  Cobourg Union Cemetery (Hybrid)

  Elgin Street W

  Cobourg, ON K9A 4L3

  www.ecoburials.ca

  (905) 372-8687

  Duffin Meadows Cemetery (Hybrid)

  2505 Brock Road

  Pickering, ON L1V 2P8

  www.mountpleasantgroup.com

  (905) 427-3385

  Fairview Cemetery (Hybrid)

  4501 Stanley Avenue

  Niagara Falls, ON L2E 4Z6

  https://niagarafalls.ca/city-hall/municipal-works/cemetery/locations-and-histories/fairview.aspx

  (950) 354-4721

  Meadowvale Cemetery (Hybrid)

  7732 Mavis Road

  Brampton, ON L6Y 5L5

  www.mountpleasantgroup.com

  (905) 451-3716

  INDEX

  Page references given in italics indicate illustrations or material contained in their captions.

  Aging with Dignity, 159

  air conditioning, 109, 112, 129

  air pollution, 25

  air transportation, 102

  Alabama, 163–64

  alkaline hydrolysis, 131–33

  American Way of Death, The (Mitford), 22, 24

  appointees, 57–59, 60

  Arizona, 164

  Arkansas, 164

  Arnold Mills Cemetery (Cumberland, RI), 175

  art, sustainable, 136–37

  Ascension Garden St. Francis Meadow (Henrietta, NY), 171

  ashes. See cremains

  Associated Press, 36

  Atlantic magazine, 70

  Aultorest Memorial Park (Ogden, UT), 177

  Australia, 37–38

  baby boomer generation, 33

  backhoes, 83–84

  backyard burials: body lowering in, 85–86; of cremains, 133; defined, 77; grave closing, 86, 86–87; grave digging for, 82–84; grave location, 77, 80–81; legalities, 77–78, 79–80, 123, 125; planning ahead for, 19, 125; popularity of, 78–79; Tales from the Grave, 82; Tips, 80

  balloons, 144

  bamboo, 89, 120–21

  banana leaves, 89

  Baskin-Robbins, 113

  Bass, William, 37

  bed sores, 109

  Beechwood Cemetery (Bensalem, PA), 174

  Bel Air Ascension Cemetery (Wichita, KS), 168

  Bellefontaine Cemetery (St. Louis, MO), 170

  Bestgate Memorial Park (Annapolis, MD), 169

  Bible, 27

  bin Laden, Osama, 88

  bio-cremation, 131–33

  biodegradability, 89–90, 94, 95, 134–35, 144

  bio urns, 136

  body: exhuming/transferring costs, 78; legal paperwork accompanying, 63

  body, handling of, 52; death care consultants and, 70; dressing, 103, 108–9; envisioning, 46; lowering into grave, 85, 94, 118; person in charge of, 101; planning ahead for, 103; preservation methods, 109–12; rigor mortis and, 104–5; sanitary environment for, 103–4; supplies for, 103–4, 106; Tales from the Grave, 108; Tips, 107; transportation, 125–27; washing, 28–29, 103, 105–7; wrapping in shroud, 95–96, 96–97 figs. 1–4

  body farms, 37

  Bretzel, Raoul, 39

  British Colombia (Canada), 179

  Brooksville Cemetery (Brooksville, FL), 166

  Buddhism, 32, 36

  bunk beds, 81

  burial: alive, American fear of, 22; cremation vs., 123; green options for, 139–44; planning ahead for, 44, 123–29; religious/social attitudes about, 7, 27–32; at sea, 87–88, 135–36; state/local regulations, 7; vertical/upright, 37–38. See also green burials; modern burial customs

  burial arrangements: envisioning, 47–48; legalities, 57–59, 60

  burial containers: biodegradability of, 89–90; cardboard/fiberboard, 98; coffins/caskets, natural handmade, 90–94, 92; ecopods, 99; Infinity Burial Suit/Shroud, 99; shrouds, 94–96; Tales from the Grave, 91; Tips, 98. See also burial shrouds/wraps

  burial forests, 39

  burial permits, 124

  burial shrouds/wraps, 18, 89; biodegradability of, 94; body lowering and, 85, 94; costs of, 49; green, 94–96; planning ahead for, 52; wrapping body
in, 95–96, 96–97 figs. 1–4

  burial site. See gravesite

  Burr Cemetery (Freeport, ME), 168

  cadavers: bathing of, 28–29; composting of, 39; freeze-dried, 38; myths/misconceptions about, 19; Tibetan Buddhist view of, 32. See also body entries

  California, 4, 133, 164–65

  Calvary Cemetery Dayton St. Kateri Preserve (Dayton, OH), 173

  Campbell, Billy, 133

  Canada, 131, 133, 179

  candles, 105

  Canton Cemetery Association North Lawn Cemetery (Canton, OH), 173

  Capsula Mundi, 38–39

  carbon, 25–26

  carbon dioxide, 25, 110

  cardboard coffins, 98

  Caring Info, 159

  Carlisle (England), 32

  Carl Vinson, USS, 88

  Carolina Memorial Cemetery (Mills River, NC), 172

  caskets: costs of, 49, 50; earth-friendly, 18, 34; environmental effects of, 23–24; handcrafted, 120–21; hanging coffins, 31; legalities, 7; nonbiodegradable, green burials without, 14, 17–18; planning ahead for, 52, 120–21; safety coffins, 22; wood, how to make, 92, 92–94. See also coffins

  casket toppers, 141–42

  Catholic Church, 28

  Cayetano Natural Burial Ground at Tolocay (Napa, CA), 164

  Cedar Brook Burial Ground (Limington, ME), 168

  Cedar Lawns Memorial Park (Redmond, WA), 177

  Celebrating Life (Rubin and Fraser), 26

  celebrities, green burials of, 34–35

  cemeteries: burial container type and, 98; burial vaults in, 18, 76–77; family cemeteries, 73; grave location in, 49; legalities, 125; lot ownership in, 76–77; modern, environmental effects of, 2, 23–24; planning ahead for, 52

  cemetery licensing departments, 61

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 19

  ceremony leaders, 117

  chants, 107

  Chavez, Cesar, 34

  China, 13

  Chocorua Cemetery (Tamworth, NH), 170

  church truck, 126

  Circle Cemetery (Barneveld, WI), 178

  Citelli, Anna, 39

  Civil War (1861–1865), 20–21

  Clarke, Richard, 92, 92–94

  clothing, 89, 106, 108

  CNN, 34

  Cobourg Union Cemetery (Cobourg, ON, Canada), 179

  Coeio, 99

  coffins: body displayed in, 108–9, 110; costs of, 49, 90; lowering of, into grave, 85; natural handmade, 90–92; planning ahead for, 52; Tales from the Grave, 91. See also caskets

  Colorado, 133, 165

  common law, 58

  community, 65–67, 115

  composting, 39

  Connecticut, 56, 165

  Conscious Elders Network, 159

  conservation burial grounds, 75–76

  contracts, 61

  Conversation Project, 43–44

  cooling blankets, 111

  Coolsprings Cemetery at Holy Cross Abbey Monastery (Berryville, VA), 177

  Cornerstone Funeral Services, 159

  coroners, 63

  costs: alkaline hydrolysis, 132; burial shrouds/wraps, 49; coffins/caskets, 49, 50, 90; cremation, 37; embalming, 50; funeral home services, 50; grave liners, 50; green burials, 48–51; modern burial customs, 2, 37, 48–51; transportation, 50

  Countryside Memorial Park (La Vernia, TX), 176

  cremains, 26, 131, 133–37

  cremation: alkaline hydrolysis vs., 132; burial containers for, 98; costs of, 37; environmental effects of, 25–26; funeral pyres as, 35–36; green burials vs., 116, 123, 131; green method of, 131–33; increased popularity of, 24; legalities, 87, 133; traditional burial vs., 24–25, 37, 123

  cremation ovens, 25

  Crestone Cemetery and Natural Burial Ground (Crestone, CO), 36, 165

  Crossings: Caring for Our Own at Death, 159

  Davis Cemetery and Arboretum (Davis, CA), 164

  death: American squeamishness about, 22; annual statistics, 22–23; community and, 67; location of, 57; modern avoidance of, 1, 13–14, 27; as natural occurrence, 1, 3, 27; religious/social attitudes about, 7, 27; unpreparedness for, 9

  Death Cafes, 33–34, 159–60

  death care consultants, 69–70

  death certificates: electronic, 67; filing for, 62–63; funeral home assistance with, 67; in home funeral packets, 62; planning ahead for, 124; for residential burials, 79; for safety deposit box opening, 60–61

  death midwives. See end-of-life doulas

  decomposition: burial container and, 89, 99; grave settling because of, 87; methods for slowing, 109–12; research studies of, 37

  decorations, 118–19

  Delano (CA), 34

  Denman Island Natural Burial Cemetery (Denman Island, BC, Canada), 179

  disposition: cremation, 116; legalities, 62–63, 79; planning ahead for, 44, 52

  donations, 119, 142

  double grave, 81

  doulas. See end-of-life doulas

  dove balloons, 144

  Doylestown Cemetery (Doylestown, PA), 174

  dryer lint urns, 134–35, 135

  dry ice, 109, 110–11, 112–13

  Duck Run Natural Cemetery (Harrisonburg, VA), 177

  Duffin Meadows Cemetery (Pickering, ON, Canada), 179

  Dust to Dust Green Burial Cemetery (Swansea, SC), 175

  dying, end-of-life doulas assisting the, 70–71

  Dying Matters, 160

  Eagle Harbor Cemetery (Eagle Harbor, MI), 169

  Eastside Memorial Park (Minden, NV), 170

  eco-embalming, 68

  EcoEternity Forests, 133

  ecopods, 99

  Egypt, 13

  Elmwood Cemetery (Memphis, TN), 176

  Eloise Woods Community Natural Burial Park (Cedar Creek, TX), 176

  email, 118

  embalming: costs of, 50; environmental effects of, 19, 23–24; funeral home promotion of, 102–3; green, 102–3; green burials without, 14, 19; green cemeteries not requiring, 75; historical/cultural precedents for, 13, 20, 21; legalities, 7, 101; reasons for, 101–2; visitations without, 68

  emotional comfort, 66

  Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, 160

  end-of-life care, planning ahead for, 43–44

  end-of-life doulas: hiring, 70–71; planning ahead for, 52

  England, 32, 34

  environmental movement, 33

  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 87, 88

  Eternal Meadow at Woodlawn Cemetery (Santa Monica, CA), 164

  Eternal Reefs, 136

  Eternal Rest Memories Park (Dunedin, FL), 166

  Ethician Family Cemetery (Huntsville, TX), 176

  Eugene Masonic Cemetery (Eugene, OR), 174

  eulogies, 118

  Evergreen Memorial Park (Evergreen, CO), 165

  exhumation, 78

  Facebook, 118

  Fairview Cemetery (Niagara Falls, ON, Canada), 179

  families: body preparation by, 71; end-of-life doulas assisting, 70–71; home funeral guide as coach for, 71; home funerals directed by, 116; next of kin, 58, 116

  family cemeteries, 73, 80

  “fantasy coffins,” 91

  farewell messages, 98

  Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 51

  Feek, Joey, 34

  Fern Prairie Cemetery (Camas, WA), 178

  fiberboard coffins, 98

  Final Passages, 160

  Fisher, Dean, 132

  flameless cremation, 131–33

  Florida, 133, 166

  flowers, 119, 141–42

  food, 52, 119–20, 140–41

  forensic anthropology research facilities, 37

  Forest Home Cemetery (Milwaukee, WI), 178

  Forest Lawn Cemetery (Detroit, MI), 169

  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens (Saraland, AL), 163

  Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hendersonville, NC), 172

  Forest Rest Natural Cemetery (Boones Mill, VA), 177

  Forever Fernwood (Mill Val
ley, CA), 164

  formaldehyde, 21, 24, 102

  fossil fuels, 25

  Foxfield Preserve Nature Cemetery (Wilmot, OH), 173

  Francis, Pope, 28

  Franklin, Marliese, 134

  Fraser, Susan, 26

  freeze-drying, 38

  friends, as next of kin, 60

  Fultonville Natural Burial Ground (Fultonville, NY), 171

  funeral arrangements, professionals for, 70

  funeral bureaus, 61

  Funeral Consumers Alliance, 9, 160

  funeral directors, 55–57

  Funeral Helper (website), 80–81

  funeral homes: ceremonies held in, 2; costs of, 50; death care consultants vs., 70; embalming promoted by, 102–3; GPLs at, 51, 68; green burials assisted by, 8, 15, 19, 47; greenwashing in, 69; hiring, 67–69; legalities, 55–57, 61, 62; planning ahead for, 52; prepayment of, 61; Tips, 51

  funeral industry: author’s experiences, 4; birth of, 21–22; environmental effects of, 7

  funeral pyres, 35–36

  funerals, traditional. See modern burial customs

  Funeral-wise, 29

  funeral wish list, 44, 51–53

  Garden of Oaks at Spring Hill (Mobile, AL), 163

  Gardens, The (Fallon, NV), 170

  Gates to Heaven Cemeteries (Seligman, MO), 170

  general price lists (GPLs), 51, 68

  Genesis, Book of, 27

  Georgia, 133, 166

  Gethsemane Cemetery (Laureldale, PA), 175

  Ghana, 91

  Gibson Cemetery (Estacada, OR), 85, 174

  gifts, 119, 141

  Gilson, David, 88

  Glendale Memorial Nature Preserve (DeFuniak Springs, FL), 166

  Glen Forest Natural Burial Cemetery (Yellow Springs, OH), 173

  Good Earth Burial Ground, The (Hazel Green, AL), 164

  GPS, 49, 136

  Gracelawn Memorial Park (Van Buren, AR), 164

  grave: opening/closing, 50, 86, 86–87, 118; settling of, 87

  grave digging: instructions for, 83–84; planning ahead for, 125; Tales from the Grave, 84; Tips, 84; tools needed for, 82–83

  Grave Digging Competition (2016), 84

  grave liners: costs of, 50; environmental effects of, 23; green burials without, 49; green cemeteries not requiring, 74; legalities, 7

  Grave Matters (Harris), 23

  gravesite: depth of, 81; envisioning, 46–47; location of, 80–81, 121; planning ahead for, 52–53, 125; ritual at, 118; size of, 82; transportation of body to, 125–27

  Greece, ancient, 108

  Green Acres Cemetery (Rocheport, MO), 170

  Greenacres Memorial Park (Ferndale, WA), 86

  “Green Burial Cemeteries in the US & Canada” (NHFREA), 163

  Green Burial Council, 24, 47, 68, 69, 75, 94, 160

  green burial grounds, 74–76, 163–79

  Green Burial Naturally, 160