The tombs are environmentally friendly

It seems that the trend of greening the environment has penetrated every corner of life, even in post-production. Green graves (good for the environment) - without the use of marinating chemicals and coffins that are difficult to decompose - are becoming attractive in North America.

When the first green cemetery in the United States was opened in South Carolina in 1998, it was unusual. Ramsey Creek Preserve invited people to bury their loved ones (or reserve a place for themselves) in a forest, with simple tombs decorated with natural stones or plants.

"The body will be wrapped in a shroud or in a decomposing coffin made of cardboard or pine wood" , and "will melt into the earth to begin a new life cycle".

Ramsey Creek Preserve is the first green cemetery in the United States, opened in South Carolina in 1998. Photo: LiveScience.

Currently, nine US states have provided this type of burial service. Green Burial Council, a non-profit organization created to promote the activity, hopes to add 25 new approved locations later this year.

"Burying green in many ways means returning to burial in the first years of this country," said Mark Harris, author of Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial ( temporarily translated as "Tomb story: the journey from the modern burial industry to the way of natural burial" ), commented.

The cost of green burial is only one-third to one-half that of conventional burial.

Ramsey Creek Preserve is the first green cemetery in the United States, opened in South Carolina in 1998. (Photo: LiveScience)

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