I suppose when the Huffington Post starts writing about "Green" or "Natural" burials, skeptics like me ought to pay a little more attention. So it is that Anne Dilenschneider writes Natural Burial is gaining ground all across the country (ED: USA). Sometimes it even gets media attention, as in the case of Lynn Redgrave's funeral. Two events featuring natural burial -- the Solar Living Institute's Solfest XIV in Ukiah, California on September 25th & 26th and the September 27th evening on "American Culture & Death" at the Mankind Project Center in Houston, Texas -- came to my attention this week as I continued my conversations with funeral homes across the country about natural burial.

She goes on to outline a move to Green Burials across the USA. However, we should note that when they talk about green or natural burials they are talking about the value adding that goes on over there. Like full embalming being mandatory in some places and the promoted need to have the most expensive, ostentatious coffin available. The article sums up with "Clearly, throughout the United States there is increasing interest in natural burial as a way to honor lives that have been lived with care for the planet. And, as I discovered, many funeral homes and conservationists are taking an environmentally conscious, long-term view and working together to make natural burial a real option in every state."

Read the full account here...

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