Natural burials, also known as green burials, are an alternate form of end-of-life care that champion cleaner funeral ...

Promessa founder Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak has developed an ecological burial process that allows the body to be restored to the earth as naturally as possible. Image credit: Promessa, Niklas Johansson.

RIO COMMUNITIES Bryan Beard and Claire McFadyen strolled alongside the native willows and yucca plants demarcating rustic, natural gravesites that amount to little more than tidy mounds of earth out ...

Picture this: a beautiful meadow, natural flora and fauna abound — sunlight peeks through trees as they stretch toward a blue sky, wildflowers sway in the breeze as a butterfly flits past. Now, where ...

2025 could be the year that Humboldt County sees a new green burial cemetery begin operations. Sacred Groves, a non-profit organization working to establish a conservation burial site in the county, ...