Description: A companion to Mark Harris' book Grave Matters, www.gravematters.us explores the green burial -- or natural burial -- movement in the U.S. and Canada, following natural cemeteries, memorial reefs, cremation, burial at sea, home funerals, casket making, and rural/backyard burial. The site also examines the environmental and human cost of embalming and of other features of the modern funeral.
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Whatever Happened to ‘Dust to Dust’? You Can Still Find It in Green Burial
By the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of Six Feet Under, Americans all across the country were starting to look outside the box when death came calling.
Grave Matters follows a dozen such families who found in “green” burial a more natural, more economic and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor.