Australia has been pretty slow to adopt natural burial, but in the UK it's really taken off, says Ken West on the ABC's "LifeMatters".  Natural burial means no headstone, no embalming, no fancy, furnished coffin, and no 'six feet under' either. 

Ken West started the first natural burial site in the UK in 1993. Since then more than 200 natural or 'woodland' burial sites have been established across the UK. Ken has been visiting Australia to educate our funeral industry on how natural burial works.

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