Resources
ARTICLES
Free Press Article - Go Green in Death, an interview with Jean Matlack and Anthony Antolini, by Freyja Grey, June 18. 2024
Death Has a Big Carbon Footprint. Maine's first conservation cemetery offers an alternative, Maine Public Radio l By Esta Pratt-Kielley February 24, 2023
The Natural Burial Experience takes a visitor through a typical green burial with photos and information to helpful as well as see, Lee Webster, October 2022
YOUTUBE
Natural Burials and Green Funerals - 4 minute YouTube
Caitlin Doughty - she covers a wide variety of topics- www.youtube.com/@AskAMortician
Dr. Sarah Kerr, PhD - Centre for Sacred Deathcare - https://www.youtube.com/@SacredDeathcare
WEBSITES
Order of the Good Death - https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/
The Centre for Sacred Death Care - The Centre for Sacred Death Care
MOVIES & VIDEOS:
Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America (trailer) - Full documentary is 1hr 7'
Deeply Rooted a film about conservation burial by the Conservation Burial Alliance, 2021
Bury Me at Taylor Hollow - 1 hour PBS Documentary
After 15 years in the funeral industry, John Christian Phifer is creating the first natural burial ground in Tennessee.
The film follows the growing pains of Larkspur Conservation as they set out to buy land for both natural burial and conservation.
A Will For the Woods - 1hr+/- Vimeo
Determined that his last act will be a gift to the planet, musician and psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial.
Steelmantown - 28 minutes - Vimeo - Confronting death and celebrating life at a green cemetery in southern New Jersey. Steelmantown follows the owner of a cemetery in southern New Jersey, a husband and wife funeral director, and a dying naturalist, as they approach a new way at looking at the end of life journey.
Dying Green - 27 minutes - 'Dying Green' - Set in the foothills of the Appalachians, this film explores one man's vision of using green burials to conserve land. Dr. Billy Campbell, the town's physician, and his efforts have radically changed our view of burials in the United States. Dying Green focuses on the revolutionary idea of using our own death and natural burial to fund land conservation and create wildlife preserves. Trailer here
Green Burial: How Natural Burials Help the Planet | One Small Step - 7 minutes - What most Americans know as a “traditional” burial takes a big toll on our environment, so what should we do with our bodies when we die?
Open Air Cremation - Legal in Colorado - 8 minutes
The Burial (trailer) - Prime Video - Feature length starring Jamie Fox, Tommy Lee Jones
Caitlin Doughty, Mortician/Author - XOXO Festival (2019) - With multiple New York Times bestselling books, her “Ask A Mortician” series on YouTube, Los Angeles-based mortician Caitlin Doughty spawned a death-positive movement that’s changing how we talk about death. Her latest book, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, answers real questions from kids about death, 20 minutes.
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Books
Changing Landscapes: Exploring the Growth of ethical, compassionate, and environmentally sustainable funeral service, compiled and written by Lee Webster, Side Effects Publishing, 2016
Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead by Cody J. Sanders and Mikeal C. Parsons, Fortress Press, 2023
Grave Matters, by Mark Harris, Scribner, 2007
Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth, by Suzanne Kelly, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015
Our Last, Best Act by Mallory McDuff, Broadleaf Books, 2021
Reimagining Death: Stories and practical wisdom for home funerals and green burials by Lucinda Herring, North Atlantic Books, 2019
The After-Death Care Educator Handbook, by Lee Webster, 2022 (includes titles Building Bridges along the Deathcare Continuum, Essentials for Practicing Home Funeral Guides, Planning Guide and Workbook for Home Funeral Families, and Undertaken With Love by Donna Belk)
The Future of the Corpse: Changing Ecologies of Death and Disposition, edited by Karla Rothstein and Christina Staudt, Columbia University, published by Praeger, ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2021
The Green Burial Guidebook by Elizabeth Fournier, New World Library, 2018
Changing Landscapes: Exploring the Growth of ethical, compassionate, and environmentally sustainable funeral service, compiled and written by Lee Webster, Side Effects Publishing, 2016
Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead by Cody J. Sanders and Mikeal C. Parsons, Fortress Press, 2023
Grave Matters, by Mark Harris, Scribner, 2007
Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth, by Suzanne Kelly, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015
Our Last, Best Act by Mallory McDuff, Broadleaf Books, 2021
Reimagining Death: Stories and practical wisdom for home funerals and green burials by Lucinda Herring, North Atlantic Books, 2019
The After-Death Care Educator Handbook, by Lee Webster, 2022 (includes titles Building Bridges along the Deathcare Continuum, Essentials for Practicing Home Funeral Guides, Planning Guide and Workbook for Home Funeral Families, and Undertaken With Love by Donna Belk)
The Future of the Corpse: Changing Ecologies of Death and Disposition, edited by Karla Rothstein and Christina Staudt, Columbia University, published by Praeger, ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2021
The Green Burial Guidebook by Elizabeth Fournier, New World Library, 2018
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Maine Green Burial Cemeteries
Baldwin Hill Cemetery*** Conservation Cemetery Fayette, ME 04349 207-337-2848 [email protected] www.baldwinhillcemetery.org Burr Cemetery Hybrid Cemetery Freeport ME 04032 207-865-3940 www.burr-cemetery.com Cedar Brook Burial Ground Natural Burial Ground Limington ME 04049 207-637-2085 www.mainegreencemetery.com |
Greenwood Cemetery
Vaultless Hybrid Bethel, ME 04217 [email protected] 3207-824-2669 Rainbow’s End No longer offering plots for sale but is open for walking. Natural Burial Ground Orrington ME 04474 [email protected] Southern Maine Veterans Cemetery, Springvale Veterans Hybrid Cemetery Springvale ME 04083 207-490-4612 www.11.maine.gov/veterans/memorial-cemetery-system/southern-maine/index.html |
