How to Plan for a Green Funeral - Burial Options

1. What is the average cost of a green burial?
2. How do I plan a green burial?
3. What is the most environmentally friendly way to be buried?
4. In what ways can Funeral directors provide green funerals to consumers?
5. Are green burials cheaper?
6. What is the cheapest way to be buried?
7. Can I be buried without a coffin?
8. Can you bury a body in your yard?
9. Is green burial legal?
10. What are your options when you die?
11. Where can I be buried naturally?
12. Is Cremation a sin?

What is the average cost of a green burial?

Natural burials cost an average of $2,000 to $3,000 including a burial plot, interment fees and a shroud or environmentally friendly casket, according to Sehee. A traditional funeral can cost much more.

How do I plan a green burial?

1. Your Green Burial Planning Guide.
2. Identify Your Environmental Aims.
3. Identify Your Economic Aims.
4. Identify Your Spiritual Aims.
5. Designate a Funeral Service Provider.
6. How I Want My Body Prepared.
7. Choosing My Burial Container.
8. Designing My Funeral Service.

What is the most environmentally friendly way to be buried?

Natural burials. Interring a body in earth in a manner that allows it to decompose naturally is perhaps the greenest option available, and so-called green burials are gaining popularity.

In what ways can Funeral directors provide green funerals to consumers?

A green funeral incorporates environment-friendly options, and may include any or all of the following: no embalming or embalming with formaldehyde-free products; the use of sustainable biodegradable clothing, shroud or casket; using recycled paper products; serving organic food (if food may be served in a funeral home ...

Are green burials cheaper?

Green burials can be substantially less expensive because they do not include the high costs of embalming, ornate caskets, or concrete vaults. Depending on the other elements of the funeral ceremony, an eco-friendly burial could lower the cost by thousands of dollars.

What is the cheapest way to be buried?

A funeral home's least expensive option is a direct burial, in which the body is buried soon after death, with no embalming or visitation.

Can I be buried without a coffin?

A person can be directly interred in the earth, in a shroud, or in a vault without a casket. There is no state law that dictates what a casket must be made of, either. ... Many of our Simple Pine Box caskets, though intended for natural burial, are enclosed in concrete vaults in conventional cemeteries.

Can you bury a body in your yard?

Alberta says, 'No. ... In Alberta, Tyler Weber, director for Alberta Funeral Association, quotes the Alberta Cemeteries Act. “No person shall bury a dead human body in any place other than a cemetery and . . . no new cemetery can be established except for a religious auxiliary, religious denomination or a municipality.”

Is green burial legal?

Green burial is a set of body preparation, funeral, and burial practices that allow a body to decompose naturally in a site specifically set aside for this type of grave. ... Green burial is legal, but there are rules and regulations for dealing with human remains that do have to be followed.

What are your options when you die?

Here are some of the common and not-so-common things you can do with your body after you die: Cremated into ashes. Liquified via alkaline hydrolysis, aka “liquid cremation” or resomation. Cryogenically frozen and preserved.

Where can I be buried naturally?

Natural Burial Cemeteries

• 1 Windridge Memorial Park. Windridge Memorial Park. 7014 S. Rawson Bridge Rd. Cary, IL 60013.
• 2 Willow Lawn Memorial Park. Willow Lawn Memorial Park. 24090 US-45 Vernon Hills, IL 60061.

Is Cremation a sin?

A: In the Bible, cremation is not labeled a sinful practice. ... Some biblical references of burning a person with fire seem to suggest the type of life they lived - the enemies of God and God's laws were promptly cremated as a form of capital punishment.