A gentle brook meanders through 28.9-acres of protected lands in the White Mountains, a picturesque resting place for those seeking an environmentally conscious way to return to the earth. The ...

RIO COMMUNITIES Bryan Beard and Claire McFadyen strolled alongside the native willows and yucca plants demarcating rustic, natural gravesites that amount to little more than tidy mounds of earth out ...

Natural burials, also known as green burials, are an alternate form of end-of-life care that champion cleaner funeral ...

Steve Ball’s grave was marked not by a granite headstone or marble mausoleum upon the burial of his cremated remains last year, but a flat rock chipped into the shape of a heart. It came from his ...

Diane Holick has long known she doesn’t want to be buried in a box after she dies. Nor does she want to be cremated. Instead, she wants what’s known as a natural burial, a type of funeral that eschews ...