Dec. 21—ANDERSON — Grieving families tasked with laying a loved one to rest normally can choose from among conventional burial, cremation, or donating the body to science. Maplewood Cemetery has ...

At South Dallas’ Oakland Cemetery, life after death has a new meaning amid a field of resilient post oak trees, wildflowers and long-stem prairie grasses. Five years after a group of volunteers ...

Bayside Cemetery in Potsdam was recently approved by the state to offer 'natural burials' in certain sections of the cemetery. Natural burial is an alternative to traditional, more expensive, and more ...

An Auburn-based organization has proposed creating an ecologically-friendly, "green" cemetery — possibly the first in New England — in a leafy Maine town overlooking the Penobscott River. The concept ...

Nearly half of all people who died nationally last year were cremated and about 36 percent of Arkansans were cremated, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. Industry insiders expect ...

An eco-conscious lifestyle doesn’t have to end at the grave. Seriously. Like buying a hybrid car, shopping for organic produce and using paraben-free beauty products, green burials not only exist — ...

NISKAYUNA — The state’s first Catholic natural burial preserve opened a week ago at the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery. The Kateri Meadows Natural Burial Preserve sold its first plot last Friday to a ...

From the rural road in Windsor Mill, a small sign and a gravel driveway mark the entrance to Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum. It doesn't look much like a cemetery from the roadway ...

Thursday, the Humboldt County Planning Commission unanimously approved a permit for a proposed Kneeland natural burial cemetery known as Sacred Groves. The cemetery’s nonprofit has seen hundreds ...

A new cemetery providing natural burials was recently opened in the Netherlands after years of preparation. The Trappistine Sisters of the Abbey of Koningsoord came up with the idea as a place of ...