What's It All About?

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When it's time to leave your body behind, make a clean break!

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Green or natural burial is environmentally friendly. Green burials do away with the embalming chemicals and the extraneous cement, steel or other non-biodegradable materials conventional burials put into the earth, and lack the carbon footprint of cremation. In most cases, the body is not embalmed and is placed in a biodegradable container, then interred directly in a grave without a concrete liner. Natural burials forego using formaldehyde-based embalming fluids and opt for a biodegradable casket or shroud.

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As our society begins to embrace death as a normal part of the life cycle, we are seeing a variety of literature, information and resources surrounding green options and how to pursue them.