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Natural Burial Woodland
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Reclaiming Death
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Cemetery Design Options That FitYou have a vision and a location. How do you make them work together? Where do you even start?
Maybe your starting point is over-grazed ranch land, mono-cropped agricultural acreage, or even an abandoned golf course. Perhaps your city has a neglected cemetery, with its rich local history buried beneath years of weeds. With the rapid increase in cremation as an option, you might even find an “active” cemetery with a drastic decline in sales of vacant plots or a section of undeveloped land that could be converted to a "green" section to keep up with growing consumer demand for earth-friendly options. |
Burial practices that work in partnership with the natural world serve to nourish and revitalize the soil, provide habitat for plants and wildlife, draw down and sequester carbon, and help to restore climate stability.
Here our “last act” is to take part in the restoration of this fragile ecosystem. Just as life flourishes above ground, so does the biotic community beneath. As each human body, prepared simply and buried at optimal depth, merges back into the earth it came from, in an affirmation that there is no “death” where life is held precious. “It takes a village…” the saying goes. So many different kinds of expertise converge to create a natural burial ground. And it is not only the ecosystem that needs to be rebuilt, so does society's collective attitude towards death. Community engagement, legal structures, zoning codes, rules and regulations, on and on it goes. Creating—or revitalizing—a cemetery takes a village, too. |
That’s why we say:
“Your Vision. Your Journey. Our Expertise.” |
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