Dec. 21—ANDERSON — Grieving families tasked with laying a loved one to rest normally can choose from among conventional burial, cremation, or donating the body to science. Maplewood Cemetery has ...

A Troup County cemetery will soon expand. Earlier this month, the Troup County Board of Commissioners voted to add 20 new acres to Whispering Hills, which sits along Mooty Bridge Road near LaGrange.

Joining a growing trend of providing an earth-friendly way to lay loved ones to rest, a Palatine cemetery has become the first Catholic institution in Illinois to offer a natural burial option. Run by ...

Death is something that can be awkward to talk about, and planning one's own funeral can be a strange dilemma. Choice Mutual conducted an annual survey that ranks alternative burial preferences around ...

The Archdiocese of Chicago has announced the debut of a new “natural burial” option at one of its Chicago-area cemeteries, reportedly the first such Catholic offering in the state and one that ...

Bayside Cemetery in Potsdam was recently approved by the state to offer 'natural burials' in certain sections of the cemetery. Natural burial is an alternative to traditional, more expensive, and more ...

This commentary was submitted on behalf of several members of the group Land Conservation Natural Burial (conservationburialmn.org), which has the goal of establishing a conservation burial ground in ...

The premise of a green burial, say advocates of the practice, is to return us to the Earth, replenish it and help it to outlive us.

Bodies go to "back to earth" after being buried closer to surface in bio-degradable casket or shroud with no grave stones ...

Thursday, the Humboldt County Planning Commission unanimously approved a permit for a proposed Kneeland natural burial cemetery known as Sacred Groves. The cemetery’s nonprofit has seen hundreds ...