What Is a Home Funeral?

Let’s go back to simpler days gone by when do-it-yourself was an everyday way of life. Days when taking care of the family, by the family, from birth to death was a normal occurrence, a given.  There was the family (the nucleus) and directly around it was the community where they lived.  What we call [...]

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Why I Decided to Write My Own Eulogy…My Farewell Message to a Natural Life

Did you know the what the exact definition of the word ‘eulogy’ is? According to Wikepedia the literal translation is Classical Greek for ‘good words’ pertaining to a speech written in praise of a person or thing, usually one recently deceased or retired. However, it also can praise for someone who is still living on [...]

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What is a Natural Burial?

What is being referred to today as a Natural or Green burial was actually the norm for thousands of years prior to the Civil War.  It was a time when people respected the earth. After all it’s where we all came from.  In one way or another, whether you were from a city or a [...]

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My Funeral: A Green Burial Story

Once I learned about what a green burial is I knew instantly that this was the way I wanted my funeral to be held.  The more I learned about the desecration and destruction  that is done to our earth through a traditional burial in a traditional graveyard, as we have become accustomed to, the more [...]

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