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Why Do Green Burial?
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Why Do Green Burial?

  • real answers to questions real people ask about green burial
  • Is a green burial right for you
  • Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death.Heinrich, Bernd.Broughton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth.  Kelly,  Suzanne. Roman and Littlefield, How funerary rites are affected by the environmental movement.
  • Reimagining Death:Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials Penguin Random House. Herring, Lucinda.Reminds us of the sacredness of death itself and the gifts of partnering with nature when we die.
  • Grandma in the Greenbuelt: How the natural disposal of out dead could save Ontario’s green space. Heron-Monk, Courtney. A Major Research Paper presented to Ryerson University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Planning in Urban Development Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2011. Contains an extensive bibliography.

visual graphic showing the impact of green burial vs traditional methods

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