Burial costs have always been high. Green burials may change the narrative. Nigel Rudolph, a public archaeology coordinator for the Florida Public Archaeology Network, has noticed the trend in the ...
ARKANSAS, USA — Among the unenviable tasks a funeral director has to perform is guiding the grief-stricken through one of the saddest times of their lives and then handing them a bill indicative of ...
Green funerals are poised to grow quickly in the coming decades. A number of death care firms are ready for the secular trend. The shift to eco-friendly funerals won’t happen overnight. With a small ...
Before Ruth Laskowski died of skin cancer, she asked to be buried as naturally as possible. She wanted an environmentally-friendly “green” burial that skips a conventional vault and metal casket, ...
Steve Ball’s grave was marked not by a granite headstone or marble mausoleum upon the burial of his cremated remains last year, but a flat rock chipped into the shape of a heart. It came from his ...
Funeral expenses' impact on families can linger long after the burial. More people are relying on borrowed funds like credit or crowdsourcing through GoFundMe to cover rising funeral costs that have ...
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The Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) will conduct a feasibility study for options to help the Island Memorial Society (GIMS) acquire land for a green, also called a natural ...