The Green Burial Guidebook is a new book by Elizabeth Fournier explaining the methods and ideas behind having an affordable, environmentally friendly burial. Fournier is owner and operator of...
Over the last year, Berardinelli Funeral Home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been making a shift in their product showroom (now a "gallery") to something unique in...
Originally Published on The Gazette When a funeral director is viscerally disturbed by the odor of embalming fluid, you know something is off. That's what happened to Jon...
By Amy Cunningham, Editor of The Inspired Funeral I used to associate the National Funeral Director’s Association (NFDA) with Brooks-Brothers-clad lobbyists who never questioned the utility of highly toxic embalming fluids....
Two Italian designers are bringing a new meaning to "family tree." Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel proposed a plan to make cemeteries more eco-friendly by replacing headstones with trees. It's...
Tender is the story of one community teaching itself how to be as present in death as we have learnt to become in birth. They are not trained or...
Contributed by: qeepr.com It is often said that death is a cycle whereupon the body, carbon and a person’s essence are returned to the earth. What this maxim...