Cedar Brook Burial Ground

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Cedar Brook Burial Ground offers burials within a tree farm. A stone may be selected from within the cemetery to use as a marker. Plants that occur natural in the area may be planted. For more information or a tour of CBBG contact Peter McHugh at Cedar Brook Burial Ground, Inc.
175 Boothby Road, P.O. Box 511, Limington, ME 04049-0511
207.637.2085
Email: CBBG@MaineGreenCemetery.com

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Cedar Brook Burial Ground is located with in a tree farm.

If you have any questions please contact Peter McHugh. We are open all year for burials and to visit.

P.O. Box 511
175 Boothby Road
Limington, Maine 04049

207-637-2085

Friends and family members gather around a biodegradable seagrass and wicker casket that contained Patrick Ytsmas unembalmed body at Green Meadow at Fountain Hill Cemetery Saturday afternoon. Patrick Ytsma's green burial was the first in the Lehigh Valley. Green Meadow at Fountain Hill Cemetery is the fourth established green cemetery in Pennsylvania. (KEVIN MINGORA / THE MORNING CALL)

Among baby boomers, a more earth-friendly final act is growing in demand.

December 13, 2011|By Scott Kraus, Of The Morning Call

In life, Patrick Ytsma of Bethlehem made it a point to minimize his drag on the environment, in part by riding his bike nearly everywhere he went.

So it was fitting that when he died tragically last week at 53 after colliding with a car on the Fahy Bridge, he would be laid to rest at Fountain Hill Cemetery in the Lehigh Valley’s first burial in a cemetery with a special area devoted to environmentally friendly interments.

Ytsma’s burial took place Saturday, funeral-goers forming a broad semicircle around the wind-swept hillside grave site as pallbearers delicately lifted the earth-friendly sea grass and willow casket that contained his un-embalmed body out of the hearse.

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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, but could you hold the concrete, please?

By Sandra A. Miller Globe Correspondent /March 1, 2009

Ruth Faas and Sue Cross watched attentively as the crimson ecopod decorated with the gold Aztec sun symbol was lowered into a grave at Mount Auburn Cemetery last May. Cemetery administrators had proposed a test run with an empty casket to see how its papier-mache material, shaped like an Egyptian mummy’s sarcophagus, would work with the hydraulic equipment that typically handles heavy, oblong coffins. Despite a little wobble, the conventional lift handled the 40-pound ecopod just fine – good news for Faas and Cross.

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By the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of Six Feet Under, Americans all across the country were starting to look outside the box when death came calling.

Grave Matters follows a dozen such families who found in “green” burial a more natural, more economic and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor.

Listen to the interview with Mark Harris on Fresh Air by host, Terry Gross. Click on LISTEN..

Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial

CROSSINGS is a home funeral and green burial resource center fostering the integration of dying and after-death care back to the family. There are affordable and environmentally responsible alternatives to conventional funeral and burial care.

Educational, inspirational and practical tools for creating healing and honoring the passage of our loved ones. Click here to view a free summary document Crossings has compiled on home funeral care, Crossings’ Resource Guide: A step-by-step how to guide for home funeral care.

From time to time we are asked for information on planning a funeral. Here is a new book presenting a humorous approach to celebrating the life of a loved one or to be used to plan your own funeral.

This review of this recently published book is by Nora Cedarwind Young, certified death midwife, green burial educator, and hospice chaplain

Erika Dillman’s sharp and witty humor reminds us that death is a sure thing in this lifetime, and the more one prepares and shares their desired wishes, the more we honor our beloved dead in their final farewell.

The Party of Your Life: Get the Funeral You Want by Planning It Yourself

We have had several questions about winter burials

Since there is very little frozen ground in the woods we have been able to open and close the grave sites in winter. However the cost would be more than normal due to the snow plowing to the site. Most funeral homes have a cold room for temporary storage without embalming.

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