Green Burial, Natural Burial

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Natural Burial, Green Burial

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The goal of a natural burial is to return the body to the earth in a manner that does not inhibit decomposition and allows the body to recycle naturally. It is intended as an environmentally sustainable alternative to existing funeral practices that may pose future hazards to public health and run counter to modern resource-conservation activities.

The practice of natural burial dates back thousands of years but has been interrupted in modern times by "technological advances" (vaults, liners, embalming, mausoleums, etc.) that mitigate the decomposition process. In the late 19th century Sir Francis Seymour Hayden proposed "earth to earth burial," in a pamphlet of the same name.

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