WINDSOR MILL (AP) — Mia Zinn was a member of her middle school ecology club, had planted a reflection garden and had implored public officials to preserve a local woods,
Mia Zinn was a member of her middle school ecology club, had planted a reflection garden and had implored public officials to preserve a local woods, and when she became terminally ill, she wanted to become a tree. So, the day after she died, her father, Chris Zinn, visited Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum in Baltimore County, a 45-minute drive from the family s home in Abingdon, Md. He was drawn to a wooded area that opened up to a wedge of western sky.
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Such burials eschew the embalming, expensive caskets and concrete vaults or metal grave liners standard in U.S. cemeteries, replacing them with simple materials that decompose along with the body.
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