
A Gift to Your Family and the Environment: Green Burial
The practice of burying our dead in the ground has been traced back over 100,000 years ago. For the vast majority of that history, those burials have been green. In fact, the practice of embalming, one of the most environmentally harmful aspects of modern American burial, didn’t begin until the Civil War – in an effort to preserve the bodies of soldiers killed far from home so they could be returned to their families intact. (more…)