Green Burial

Our Aquamation systems are changing the funeral profession. Aquamation is a gentle, water-based alternative to flame cremation available for our pet and human loved ones.

First green cemetery in Maine.

Promoting Your Choices for After-Death Care

The Funeral Consumers Alliance of Western Massachusetts (FCAWM) is a non-sectarian, non-profit membership organization whose mission is "to promote and protect a consumer's right to choose meaningful, dignified, and affordable final arrangements: funeral or memorial services, care of the body and disposition of human remains (including burial, cremation or donation).”

The Green Burial Council is comprised of two distinct nonprofit entities. Both organizations work together to further the movement toward more sustainable burial practices and support those who are actively engaged in green burial activities.

Green Burial Massachusetts (GBM) is a statewide all-volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose guiding principle is to restore death to its rightful place in the cycle of life. Our mission is twofold: to start the first green cemetery open to all in Massachusetts, and to educate the public about green burial.

We offer ecologically sound burials that are affordable, simple and beautiful, in meadows surrounded by forests.

A compilation of laws, regulations, cases and web sources on burial, cremation, and funeral law.

We are home funeral guides and advocates based in eastern and central Massachusetts. We are dedicated to educating people about their choices and to bringing back the tradition of home-based funeral care.

A Greener Funeral was launched on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, April 22nd, 2010, and is sponsored by Passages International, Inc., a biodegradable funeral product wholesaler since 1999. The goal of this website and accompanying resources is to educate the general public about ways in which they can leave a lighter footprint on this earth by selecting a greener funeral. How green a family ultimately decides to be is entirely up to them.

Death is profound, momentous, and beyond our understanding. With an approach that is as practical as it is meaningful, Recompose connects the end of life to the natural world.

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 only physician, and his efforts have radically changed our understanding of burials in the United States. Dr. Campbell's dream is to conserve one million acres of land. Dying Green focuses on the revolutionary idea of using our own death to fund land conservation and create wildlife preserves.

The documentary A Will for the Woods follows Clark Wang, a man dying of lymphoma, as he attempts to figure out the most environmentally friendly form of burial. This quest leads to an exploration of green technology, as well as a philosophical examination of the idea of returning to the earth upon death.