NATURAL BURIAL SERVICES

Natural Burial Services

An “Earth-Friendly” Alternative to Traditional Burial
Natural Burial and Cremation gives families additional options for the care of their loved ones. Some of these additional options include having a public visitation with formaldehyde free chemical embalming because they are considered non- toxic.

Our staff will help educate you on the guidelines established by local cemeteries as they relate to natural burial. If the decedent is to be buried, we provide caskets that are made of all-natural materials. Further, we provide vaults that allow the body to return to the earth in a natural and expedited manner.

Natural Burial, A Greener Way
Natural burial seeks to return one’s remains to the earth as directly and simply as possible. A natural burial attempts to avoid embalming with formaldehyde based chemicals and instead uses preservation techniques that are more earth friendly. These techniques include the use of non-toxic embalming chemicals or no embalming at all. In addition, natural burial stresses the use of earth- friendly caskets and burial vaults.

There are many shades of “green” in a natural burial. The greenest natural burial would be one in which the interment would take place in a certified green cemetery in which the shrouded body is place directly in the ground.

In Wisconsin, a more realistic natural burial would be one in which the deceased would be placed in a bio-degradable casket and preserved with non-toxic chemicals for visitation and services. At the time of the interment, the casketed body would be placed in a bottomless vault and buried in one’s family cemetery. Another option would be to buried in a cemetery that doesn’t require a vault. In Waupaca County, we have two cemeteries that could be considered “Green” cemeteries; Lind Center Cemetery in the Town of Lind and Ogdensburg Park Cemetery. These cemeteries DO NOT require a vault.

Cremation, although not nearly as “green” as natural burial, is perceived as being kinder to the environment. There is an argument to be made that cremation does leave a significant carbon footprint due to the consumption of carbon-based resources and fuels. However, cremation can be made more natural and greener through the use of scattering urns and bio-degradable urns.

Natural burial can be seen as a return to the traditional customs of our pre-industrial society. Our religious and spiritual traditions are really unaffected by our choice of natural burial. The purpose of natural burial is to allow the body to quickly and naturally return to the elements of earth.