Cremated remains are considered personal property in Oregon, so the use of a cemetery for burying them isn’t required by law – that means the garden is just fine.
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Back to Earth Day with Natural Burial
We get many things that we use in our daily lives from “the Land” – the food we eat, fiber for our clothes, and raw material for heat, homes, buildings, and roads. We’re surrounded by element-based things extracted or grown from the soil and fashioned into shapes we find useful or pleasing enough to consume. We’re also getting good at re-using the elements in that fiber, that liquid, that meltable plastic, so we don’t have to use virgin material, thereby reducing costs and impacts on the environment in the process. In fact, our bodies are some of the best recycling machines around. We eat foods that begin as soil, like…
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The Natural End Pledge: Preserving Natural Values
Natural End Map as a way to help people find providers who would help them have a more natural end.
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What’s Your Plan B?
I spend a lot of time talking to people about their End-of-Life plans. My coffin and cemetery business has a way of making that an easy topic of discussion for me
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Writ in Stone – The Cemetery as Historian
No two cemeteries are alike. Nobody is buried in more than one place and, consequently, every cemetery is unique, with its own grouping of the once-living unlike any other on the planet.
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Sharing the Caring at the End of Life
The most effective information-sharing tool turned out to be a Facebook page set up by his daughter in order to easily share news about his rapidly changing condition once he stopped eating.
