Source: Bold LifeBy: Rachel PressleyPublished: December 1, 2021Featured: Cassie Barrett, Benefits of Green Burial, Carolina Memorial Sanctuary, Conservation Burial Some may say Cassie Barrett is obsessed with death. But she would say quite the opposite is true — she’s fascinated by what mortality can teach us about living. “When I […]
Read MoreHendersonville Times-News – Stories of the Land: New life at Carolina Memorial Sanctuary
Source: Hendersonville Times-NewsWritten By: Rose Jenkins LanePublished: June 8, 2020Featured: Carolina Memorial Sanctuary, Habitat Restoration, Shaun Moore Shaun Moore is walking on the edge of a wetland, where lush plants are springing up. The leaves are a brilliant green, shining with rain. He stops. “Hey!” he says. “We didn’t plant […]
Read Morec|net: Natural burials could change how we say goodbye to the dead
Source: c|netWritten By: Caroline RobertsPublished: June 3, 2020Featured: Benefits of Green Burial, Carolina Memorial Sanctuary, Environmental Impact of Burial Do you ever wonder what happens to your body after you die? Like many, you’ll probably end up six feet under the ground. There’ll be a service. Friends and family will […]
Read MoreKALW – The Spiritual Edge: Sacred Steps – A Buddhist Lay Minister Asks ‘What Is A Good Death?’
Source: KALW – The Spiritual EdgeInterview By: Jess EngebretsonPublished: May 26, 2020Featured: Caroline Yongue, Carolina Memorial Sanctuary, Spiritual Practice The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many Americans into sudden intimacy with difficult feelings: anxiety, fear, and grief. In this story from The Spiritual Edge, we get to know a North Carolina woman […]
Read MoreFortune – The ‘green death’ movement: Scientific advances give more eco-friendly funeral options
Source: FortuneWritten By: Emily GillespiePublished: April 9, 2020Featured: Green Burial, Impact of Conventional Burial, Conservation Burial Each year in the United States, more than 300,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide are emitted by a surprising group of people: the dead. With more than half of Americans choosing to be cremated […]
Read MoreBiodegradable Burial Containers for Green Burial: Strange & Unusual
Biodegradable Burial Containers for Green Burial: Part 3 – Strange & Unusual This is the last blog in our series, ‘Biodegradable Burial Containers for Green Burial.’ Part 1 covered the what & why behind green burial containers and reviewed the first and most simple option, burial shrouds. Part 2 explored […]
Read MoreBiodegradable Burial Containers for Green Burial: Coffins & Caskets
Biodegradable Burial Containers for Green Burial: Part 2 – Coffins & Caskets This is the second blog in our series about Biodegradable Burial Containers, where we explore biodegradable options for green burial. In the first blog we discussed, what is a biodegradable burial container, why choose a biodegradable burial container, […]
Read MoreThe New York Times: Rest Me in a Pine Box and Let the Fiddle Play
Source: The New York TimesWritten By: Mallory McDuff Published: July 26, 2019 Featured: Preparing for Death, Carolina Memorial Sanctuary, Center for End of Life Transitions After helping her father have the homegrown funeral he planned, an environmentalist is designing her own. “I hope to be around for a long time,” […]
Read MoreBiodegradable Burial Containers for Green Burial: The What & Why + Shrouds
Biodegradable Burial Containers for Green Burial: Part 1 – The What & Why + Shrouds What do you want to happen to your body after you die? I’ve often fantasized about a Viking Funeral, imagining my body drifting away in a wooden boat as flaming arrows shower down and it […]
Read MoreMountain Xpress: Green burial cares for loved ones and the earth
Source: Mountain Xpress Written By: Kay West Published: May 25, 2019Featured: Carolina Memorial Sanctuary On the 11 hilly acres of Carolina Memorial Sanctuary in Mills River, the view encompasses woodland, meadow, wildflowers, native shrubs and McDowell Creek. Birdsong trills through the balmy spring air, the only sound other than the […]
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