Human composting, water cremation, and green burials are gaining traction as people seek to minimize their environmental impact in death
. Most people don’t even have access to other options: burials and cremation are the only methods that are legal in all 50 states.
Now, however, a variety of theoretically more sustainable death care alternatives are increasingly being offered around the country. Here’s what you need to know.Green burials have been used as long as humans have been burying bodies. Both Native American and Jewish communitiesgreen burials. But in recent generations, they have fallen out of fashion as people opted for more elaborate burials. Green or “simple” burials became more commonly used for the poor and wards of the state.
Almost every cemetery in the U.S. has an area reserved for green, or “simple” burials, according to Ed Bixby, president of the Green Burial Council , which helps educate and certify burial grounds meeting sustainability standards. On some burial properties, plots are marked via GPS and a natural stone marker—otherwise, the area is left to grow wild, becoming less like a cemetery and more like a nature preserve full of life.
Adeline O'Keefe from The Natural Death Centre poses for photographs with a bamboo coffin in Clissold Park, London. The organization is one of many around the world working to help bring death care closer to families and arrange for environmentally-friendly funerals.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
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