There has been an increasing interest in natural or green burial. As noted in The Conway Daily Sun last Saturday, I have had the pleasure of mentoring Anya Nicoll, a Freedom high school senior who recently earned the Girl Scout Gold Award for her work advocating for natural burial.
Natural burial is when you are buried without being embalmed, using a simple casket or shroud and without a concrete vault. Natural burial avoids environmental degradation due to the leaching of embalming chemicals into the environment, consumes far fewer resources than traditional burial or cremation and is much less expensive than either. Conservation lands can provide a great venue for natural burial, supporting preservation of the lands and looking more like a park than a cemetery.
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