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Where can you have a green burial?
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There are three kinds of green cemeteries. A hybrid cemetery is a traditional cemetery that allows green burial in some or all areas. A natural burial ground has been natural from the start. A conservation burial ground restores land to prairie or woodland. Minnesota has no natural burial grounds yet.
Key points
- Hybrid: a traditional cemetery with green burial sections.
- Natural burial ground: natural since it opened.
- Conservation burial ground: burial that helps restore the land.
Angela Woosley, M.A.Mortician and end-of-life doula, Inspired Journeys · Guest presenter
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That would be kind of instead of that unfinished wood board from the last slide. So there’s a lot of different options and it can look a lot of different ways, but in general, when we’re talking about green cemeteries and where you can accomplish a green burial, you’re talking about a hybrid cemetery, which is a traditional cemetery that also has a section or allows green burial throughout, depending. There’s a natural burial ground, which has been natural since its inception. We don’t have any natural burial grounds in Minnesota. And the final one is a conservation burial ground. Conservation burial, instead of reducing the harm that our burial has on the planet, starts from a place of conservation.
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