A green or natural burial involves interring a body that hasn’t been preserved with embalming chemicals in a biodegradable casket or shroud without the use of a vault or grave liner. It allows ...

When buried in the cemetery two years ago, Jake Miller was placed directly into the ground with no casket and no preservatives ... decompose is called green burial. It is the kind of burial ...

According to the Green Burial Council, the funeral industry uses 4.3 million gallons of embalming fluid, 1.6 million tons of ...

Jake’s grave is tucked at the back of the cemetery, past where many passersby may have thought the cemetery ended. Beyond the ...

At its most basic, a green funeral is an environmentally friendly, natural process, where there is no embalming or a heavy, solid casket. The body is buried in the ground wrapped in a compostable ...

The cost of dying is increasing with the average price for a traditional funeral and burial in Montana now at $8,755 versus ...