If you want to pen your own obituary, one route is to look for workshops offered by your local senior college, senior center or adult education program. If nothing is available, Maine chaplain Jean Berman suggests writing with friends at a “death dinner party.” Friends can act as your contributors and editors. Reading some examples […]
Advocates of writing your own obit say that telling your own life story not only allows you to leave a legacy, but can be therapeutic. 'This is an opportunity to say in your own voice what is meaningful to you.'
Thursday, June 24, 2021 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Midcoast Conservancy and co-sponsor Strong-Hancock Funeral Home will host an online panel discussion of Green Burial and Conservation Cemeteries on Thursday, June 24, from 6 - 8 p.m.
Green burial has sparked an interest among land conservation circles in Maine recently, according to the Conservancy, in a news release. The idea isn’t new interment without concrete vaults, embalming, or unrecyclable components was the way all burials were conducted until a few generations ago. What is new is that land trusts are thinking of green cemeteries as a way of conserving land in perpetuity for gentle multi-use trails, habitat, and green space as well as burials.
Ali Stevenson, Midcoast Conservancy Fri, 05/07/2021 - 7:15am
Midcoast Conservancy and co-sponsor Strong-Hancock Funeral Home will host an online panel discussion of Green Burial and Conservation Cemeteries on Thursday, June 24 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Green burial has sparked an interest among land conservation circles in Maine recently. The idea isn’t new interment without concrete vaults, embalming, or unrecyclable components was the way all burials were conducted until a few generations ago. What is new is that land trusts are thinking of green cemeteries as a way of conserving land in perpetuity for gentle multi-use trails, habitat, and green space as well as burials. The idea is a win/win: people who treasure conservation and the land ethic may choose green burial as a way of affirming their values in death as in life. At the same time, land trusts are looking for imaginative ways to preserve open space with public access and involve the human community in their missi