Sentence examples for green funeral from inspiring English sources

Funeral services are being handled by the Green Funeral Home, 57 Main St., Danbury, CT.

Natural Burial ("green funeral") at Memorial Ecosystems: Ramsey Creek Preserve, Westminster, SC 30 May.

Services Sunday October 31, 2004 at 1 PM from Green Funeral Home, 88 Beach Rd, Fairfield, CT.

My mother, who is 72 and, I'm pleased to say, in perfect health, says she wants a green funeral.

Rupert Callender, ceremonial undertaker and sexton, and co owner of The Green Funeral Company My father's death two years ago was sudden and unexpected.

It started with Ronnie Kray, one of the notorious Kray brothers, who had Henley's poem, Invictus ("Invincible") read out at his Bethnal Green funeral, ending with the words: "I am the master of my fate.

Before, people were interested in green funerals, and sourcing their own coffins, and how to direct their own funerals, general empowerment.

We are being encouraged to explore green funerals, to be more closely involved with our loved ones while they are dying, and to face our own mortality.

In Britain, where more than 400,000 wooden coffins are burned each year in cremations, a charity called the Natural Death Centre has been vigorous in spreading the gospel of "green" funerals, using cardboard coffins buried in open woodland and marked with a tree instead of a headstone.

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Green funerals are on the rise as an environmentally-conscious generation starts thinking about our wills.