Forever Green: Cemeteries Offer Natural Burials

Описание: (20 Jun 2017) NEARBY ITS NEATLY ORDERED HEADSTONES, RHINEBECK CEMETERY OFFERS A DIFFERENT KIND OF BURIAL GROUND.
IT'S FOR PEOPLE LIKE GINA WALKER FOX, WHO WANT TO BE LAID TO REST WITHOUT EMBALMING - AND WITHOUT A FANCY CASKET.
SHE'S AMONG THE GROWING NUMBER OF AMERICANS CHOOSING A GREEN BURIAL.
THESE GRAVES ARE MOUNDS ON THE FOREST FLOOR.
ONE MAN WAS BURIED IN A BELOVED BLANKET. FOX WILL BE BURIED BY A TALL TREE.
Soundbite (English) green burial buyer Gina Walker Fox: "I love the thing about just being wrapped up and going back to the ground. And that seems to be a very easy way on the environment, and an easy way on the human body."
GREEN BURIAL PRACTICES ARE LEGAL IN EVERY STATE. AND THE NUMBER OF CEMETERIES AROUND THE NATION OFFERING THE OPTION HAS GROWN.
IN RHINEBECK, NEW YORK, A DIRT MOUND IS PLACED RIGHT ON TOP OF A SIMPLE BOX OR A SHROUD.
Soundbite (English) Rhinebeck Cemetery committee chairwoman Suzanne Kelly: "What happens over time and the reason we don't level it off is that eventually this will all recede and it will sort of go back to a kind of flat forest floor."
SKIPPING BURIAL VAULTS AND EMBALMING CAN SAVE MONEY, TOO.
IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, MARY LAUREN FRASER WEAVES BURIAL URNS AND COFFINS FROM WILLOW. THE BIODEGRADABLE COFFIN DRAWS ALL SORTS OF REACTIONS.
Soundbite (English) weaver Mary Lauren Fraser: "A lot of people, way more people coming in and saying, 'Is that a coffin? Did you make that? Is green burial legal? Can you tell me more?'"
HISTORIC VALE CEMETERY IN SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK PERFORMS GREEN BURIALS IN A GRASSY SPOT DOWNHILL FROM ITS GRANITE MARKERS AND ANGELS.
BECKY AND CHRIS MANCUSO CHOSE THIS SPOT AFTER LOSING THEIR STILLBORN CHILD THIS YEAR. THEY DIDN'T WANT CHEMICALS BEING USED ON THEIR DAUGHTER. HE BUILT THE WOODEN BURIAL BOX HIMSELF.
Soundbite (English) father of stillborn daughter Chris Mancuso: "The main motivation was just wanting to try to connect with my dead daughter _ and in any way that I could do something for her, which my wife and I, neither of us had a chance to do that. That was very hard for us."
ANNA GRACE DENTON MANCUSO IS BURIED IN THE SHADE A WILLOW TREE.
A PEACEFUL SPOT FOR HER PARENTS TO REFLECT.
MICHAEL HILL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

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