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Advocates of green burials say proposed legislation could hinder development of natural burial options for Minnesotans.
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When I Go, I’m Going Green

In a survey by the National Funeral Directors Association, more than 60% of respondents said they would be interested in exploring green and natural burial alternatives.
Wilson’s Mills police are investigating after reports of human remains were found over the weekend. Officers were called just after 4:30 p.m. Saturday to Fire Department Road. Police said a group of ...
Sydney's housing crisis is not just affecting the living. Each year, tens of thousands of people are buried in Sydney, though a recent audit into the city's state government-owned burial spaces shows ...
ATLANTA — For the first time since the 1880s, Oakland Cemetery is opening space to the public, giving Atlantans the chance to become part of the city’s history. The cemetery, located off Oakland ...
At the Ruff Family Ranch in Riverside County, owner Blake Ruff is working to turn his property into a thriving organic farm. But he says a proposed project just steps away is threatening it all.
Spreading across a low hill a few miles west of Leesville is a small country graveyard next to a little red brick church. Nestled among the roughly 1,400 burial plots there, near the top of the hill, ...
WHEELING, W.Va. (WTRF) — Two people were injured Friday afternoon when a tractor-trailer overturned near Stone Church Cemetery in Wheeling, according to the Ohio County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said ...
SUGAR CREEK TWP. – Jeff Roth, 66, walked the gravel path at Foxfield Preserve surrounded by nature. Birds chirped. Sunshine broke through clouds in a blue sky. Wildflowers dotted a prairie, and trees ...
Foxfield Preserve is one of only two conservation cemeteries in Ohio, offering green burials on a nature preserve. Foxfield Preserve is about a mile from The Wilderness Center in Sugar Creek Township ...
HENRYVILLE, Ind. — The sanctity of a small cemetery with unmarked graves in a southern Indiana community has been the center of controversy. Arland Caffee owns a plot of land on North Franke Road in ...