Natural Burial Association

Protect nature. Honour life. Go gently. We are a non-profit organization promoting natural burial, so Canadian families will have a green alternative to costly and polluting conventional burial practices. Our goals are to raise awareness through education and help open natural burial grounds to protect natural spaces. This blog is maintained by the Natural Burial Association. Contact Us E-mail: [email protected] Phone: [phone] ext.367 Address:70 The Esplanade, Suite 400 Toronto, ON M5E 1R2 See more at: http://www.naturalburialassoc.ca Twitter: @NaturalBurialAs

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"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves."

-Gandhi

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“[Sustainability:] It’s the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do, it’s the profitable thing to do.”

- L. Hunter Lovins

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Learn more about natural burial. 

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Ten eco-friendly funeral ideas

Greener lives are increasingly being followed with eco-deaths. Here are ten tips on how to plan an ethical send off

When thinking about your funeral, there are so many things to think about: casket, visitation, clergy, flowers… the list goes on.  If you are thinking about ways to make your end of life celebration a little bit different and a little bit green here are some ways you may go about doing so. 

Learn more about leaving the legacy of land preservation. 

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Autumn Moose by Joshua Henson Photography on Flickr.

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Help conserve Canada's wildlife.

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"Chris was very much in touch with nature. The [woodland grave] where he’s buried at Ramsey Creek is the kind of place I could see him camping out in for the weekend, just sitting there by the stream, listening to the water and the birds, watching everything emerge from its winter slumber, like it is now. And I’m sure he’s pushing it all along" — Rebecca Cochran, cousin of Chris Nichols

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Baby Boomers Are Drawn to Green and Eco-Friendly Funerals

An industry responds to demand for greener and more meaningful send-offs.

Think green funerals are just a passing fad?  The baby boomers disagree. 

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“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

John Keats

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How wonderful it would be to fill our urbanized areas with plants and flowers to help our honey bees. 

Learn more about how you can help save wild spaces. 

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This is for all you flower killers. You know who you are.

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Stop the flower torture.  Buy potted plants or plant a tree in the memory of your loved one. 

Want to learn more about environmentally friendly funerals?

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Blood, Sweat & Tears - And When I Die

I'm not scared of dying, And I don't really care. If it's peace you find in dying, Well then let the time be near. If it's peace you find in dying, And if dying time is here, Just bundle up my coffin 'Cause it's cold way down there. I hear that its cold way down their. Yeah, crazy cold way down there.

And when I die, and when I'm gone, There'll be one child born In this world to carry on, to carry on.

Now troubles are many, they're as deep as a well. I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. Swear there ain't no heaven and I pray there ain't no hell, But I'll never know by living, only my dying will tell. Yes only my dying will tell. Yeah, only my dying will tell.

And when I die, and when I'm gone, There'll be one child born In this world to carry on, to carry on

Give me my freedom for as long as I be. All I ask of living is to have no chains on me. All I ask of living is to have no chains on me, And all I ask of dying is to go naturally. Oh I want to go naturally.

Here I go, Hey Hey! Here comes the devil, Right Behind. Look out children, Here he comes! Here he comes! Hey...

Don't want to go by the devil. Don't want to go by demon. Don't want to go by Satan, Don't want to die uneasy. Just let me go naturally.

and when I die, When I'm dead, dead and gone, There'll be one child born in our world to carry on, To carry on.

Learn more about environmentally friendly death care practices.

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