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A new lakeside garden and columbarium were completed in 2010. Two new outdoor columbaria have opened for inurnments, and a green burial natural interment section is planned. With more than 100 acres (40 ha) of open, unused land, the cemetery has room for traditional casketed and vaulted ground burial for 200 years at current rates of usage.
Reef burials are a new burial practice gaining a degree of popularity. Rather than being buried in the earth, a person's remains are cremated and the resulting ash is mixed with pH-balanced concrete to create structures which are placed on the seabed to help restore marine habitats similar to a coral reef.
The Green Burial Society of Canada [50] was founded in 2013 with the goal to ensure standards of certification are set for green burial practices. [51] The society emphasizes five principles of green burial: no embalming, direct earth burial, ecological restoration and conservation, communal memorialization, and the optimization of land use. [52]
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Green burials allow for the space to be used over and over again since a body that is buried this way will completely decompose after about 20 years. If any of the foregoing resonates with you ...
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A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of many dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον ' sleeping place ' ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally ...
After the Hopewell people cremated the dead, they burned the charnel house. They constructed a mound over the remains. They also placed artifacts, such as copper figures, mica, arrowheads, shells and pipes in the mounds. Mount Vernon Site: Posey County, Indiana: 1 to 300 CE Crab Orchard Culture