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Green burial as an act of faith

A growing number of Christians are embracing natural burial practices.
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When Beth Hoeltke starts talking about death, her face lights up and her eyes begin to sparkle.
“I’ve actually been called the Death Lady,” she says, laughing heartily enough to make the tiny silver hoops on her ears swing. “I wouldn’t call myself that. I like to discuss death and what it means and how we should talk about it but I’m not the Death Lady.”
Hoeltke, who leads the graduate school at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, started writing about death about three years ago, motivated by the connections she was seeing between her academic research in the theology of creation and what seemed to her to be a gap in how Western culture addresses or rather, doesn’t address the way we die. ....

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'Put me in a wooden box:' Cemetery connects bodies to nature

She hasn’t purchased her plot yet, but Little said she doubts 78-year-old Ralph W. Howard Jr. would deny her a spot at Whispering Hills Memorial Nature Preserve (3550 Mooty Bridge Road, LaGrange).
The land spans 140 acres and backs up to inlets of West Point Lake. It features trails for walking, hiking and biking. Four horses roam fenced-in meadows.
But the preserve’s central feature is the 20 acres designated as a perpetual care green cemetery - one of three in Georgia and the only one outside of metro Atlanta, Howard said.
The preserve opened its gates Thursday, the 51st anniversary of Earth Day, and Howard said he hopes the land that gave him peace as a boy will do the same for others, even in death. ....

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'Put me in a wooden box:' Cemetery connects bodies to nature

'Put me in a wooden box:' Cemetery connects bodies to nature
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