Forever green: Cemeteries make more room for natural burials
Dirt shoveled back into the graves leaves behind slowly sinking mounds of earth on the forest floor, marked with stones. "I love the thing about just being wrapped up and going back to the ground," said 59-year-old Gina Walker Fox, who purchased a plot right by a tulip tree and wild berries she imagines her children picking on graveside visits. Burial vaults, which keep graves from collapsing and lawns level for mowing, became more widespread after World War II. Of the thousands of cemeteries nationwide... Читать дальше...