The Green Burial Guidebook
The Green Burial Guidebook

Author: Elizabeth Fournier

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2018-04-15

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1608685241

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Funeral expenses in the United States average more than $10,000. And every year conventional funerals bury millions of tons of wood, concrete, and metals, as well as millions of gallons of carcinogenic embalming fluid. There is a better way, and Elizabeth Fournier, affectionately dubbed the “Green Reaper,” walks you through it, step-by-step. She provides comprehensive and compassionate guidance, covering everything from green burial planning and home funeral basics to legal guidelines and outside-the-box options, such as burials at sea. Fournier points the way to green burial practices that consider both the environmental well-being of the planet and the economic well-being of loved ones.

The Natural Burial Cemetery Guide
The Natural Burial Cemetery Guide

Author: Ann Hoffner

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 9780989594608

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A guidebook for over 125 US cemeteries that offer green burial. Includes introductory material on green burial and photo illustrations. Detailed cemetery entries are color coded and grouped by region and state. 303 pages.

Reimagining Death
Reimagining Death

Author: Lucinda Herring

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1623172934

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Honor your loved ones and the earth by choosing practical, spiritual, and eco-friendly after-death care Natural, legal, and innovative after-death care options are transforming the paradigm of the existing funeral industry, helping families and communities recover their instinctive capacity to care for a loved one after death and do so in creative and healing ways. Reimagining Death offers stories and guidance for home funeral vigils, advance after-death care directives, green burials, and conscious dying. When we bring art and beauty, meaningful ritual, and joy to ease our loss and sorrow, we are greening the gateway of death and returning home to ourselves, to the wisdom of our bodies, and to the earth.

Greening Death
Greening Death

Author: Suzanne Kelly

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1442241578

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We once disposed of our dead in earth-friendly ways—no chemicals, biodegradable containers, dust to dust. But over the last 150 years death care has become a toxic, polluting, and alienating industry in the United States. Today, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of more sustainable and less disaffecting death care, reclaiming old practices in new ways, in a new age. Greening Death traces the philosophical and historical backstory to this awakening, captures the passionate on-the-ground work of the Green Burial Movement, and explores the obstacles and other challenges getting in the way of more robust mobilization. As the movement lays claim to greener, simpler, and more cost-efficient practices, something even more promising is being offered up—a tangible way of restoring our relationship to nature.

Our Last Best Act: Planning for the End of Our Lives to Protect the Peop
Our Last Best Act: Planning for the End of Our Lives to Protect the Peop

Author: Mallory McDuff

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Published: 2021-12-07

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1506464467

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How do we align our end-of-life choices with our values? In a world experiencing a climate crisis and a culture that avoids discussions about death and dying, environmentalist and educator Mallory McDuff takes readers on a journey to discover new, sustainable practices around death and dying.

Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey
Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey

Author: Janice Kohl Sarapin

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780813521114

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This illustrated guidebook to New Jersey's old burial grounds is unique, not just for New Jersey, but for anywhere in America. Janice Kohl Sarapin introduces you to the history and lore of old graveyards. She shows you how to read epitaphs, how to date gravestones by style, how to restore an abandoned graveyard, and how to find out the stories of the people buried there. She describes more than 120 fascinating old burial grounds throughout the state (including the cemeteries of African-Americans, Jewish communities, and other ethnic and religious groups). She provides full directions and details about what makes each one special as well as suggestions for planning your visit and for educational activities to use with children and adults.

Cemeteries of Illinois
Cemeteries of Illinois

Author: Hal Hassen

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2017-05-22

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0252099664

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Illinois is home to cemeteries and burial grounds dating back to the Native American era. Whether sprawling over thousands of acres or dotting remote woodlands, these treasure troves of local and state history reflect two centuries of social, economic, and technological change. This easy-to-use guidebook invites amateur genealogists, historians, and cemetery buffs to decipher the symbols and uncover the fascinating past awaiting them in Illinois 's resting places. Hal Hassen and Dawn Cobb have combined almost three hundred photographs with expert detail to showcase how cemeteries and burial grounds can teach us about archaeology, folklore, art, geology, and social behavior. Features include the ways different materials used as gravestones and markers reflect historical trends; how to understanding the changes in the use of iconographic images; the story behind architectural features like fencing, roads, and gates; what enthusiasts can do to preserve local cemeteries for future generations. Captivating and informed, Cemeteries of Illinois is the only guide you need to unlock the mysteries of our state 's final resting places.

Final Rights
Final Rights

Author: Joshua Slocum

Publisher: Square One Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 771

ISBN-13: 0942679350

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Josh Slocum and Lisa Carlson are the two most prominent advocates of consumer rights in dealing with the death industry. Here they combine efforts to inform consumers of their rights and propose long-needed reforms. Slocum is executive director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, a national nonprofit with over 90 local affiliates nationwide. Carlson is executive director of Funeral Ethics Organization, which works with the industry to try to improve ethical standards. In addition to nationwide issues, the book covers state-by-state information needed by anybody who wishes to take charge of funeral arrangements for a loved one, with or without the help of a funeral director. More information about the book and related issues can be found at www.finalrights.org .

Graveyards of Chicago
Graveyards of Chicago

Author: Matt Hucke

Publisher: Lake Claremont Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780964242647

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Cemeteries are in the metropolitan Chicago area.