Alternate & Creative Disposal Options
Artful Ashes – www.artfulashes.com
Handmade glass art memorials
Better Place Forests - www.betterplaceforests.com
Your final resting place can be a private tree in a beautiful, protected memorial forest.
BiosUrns – www.urnabios.com
Bios Urn is a biodegradable urn designed to convert you into a tree after life.
Crazy Coffins - www.crazycoffins.co.uk
Crazy Coffins brings together a small team of joiners, designers and artists, who for twenty years have been hand-producing coffins which no-one else has been willing to make. The team has built coffins as boats, guitars, ballet shoes and even as pieces of luggage. Coffins to be buried, cremated or simply kept in the house. Each coffin is hand-built and bespoke. Each one has been individually commissioned and ordered; not one is supplied off the shelf.
Eternal Reefs – www.eternalreefs.com
An Eternal Reef combines a cremation urn, ash scattering, and burial at sea into one meaningful, permanent environmental tribute to life. An Eternal Reef is a designed reef made of environmentally-safe cast concrete.
Eterneva – http://www.eterneva.com/
Eterneva turns the cremains or hair of both humans and animals into beautiful lab-grown diamonds, in a color and size you select. In addition, they offer a memorialization wall, and virtually walk with families through their memorialization process as the lab creates a diamond over the eight-month process
Everence - www.everence.life
Everence makes custom jewelry and safe tattoo additives from cherished material (including DNA, hair, and ash) from loved ones. Everence works with scientists from Brown, Duke, and Cornell Universities to develop a process for micro-encapsulating material from loved one’s DNA, hair, or ash. They can also use sand, soil, rock, grass, or flower (e.g., from a memorial site) for custom made jewelry or a tattoo additive (that mixes with congenital tattoo ink). For jewelry, they enclose your source into a durable aerospace resin which is then added, by hand, to your bracelet, necklace, ring, or charm. They are offering a 30% discount for those who have lost loved ones to COVID-19 with discount code: TOGETHER2020
Green Burial Council - https://www.greenburialcouncil.org/
Find natural burial providers certified by the GBC on this website.
Leaves With You – www.leaveswithyou.com
Leaves With You provides rituals to create healing and ceremony at one’s end of life. Our main offering is a biodegradable coffin made using macramé, the ancient process of tying rope. Leaves With You invites family members and mourners to participate in and weave their thoughts and prayers into the coffin’s creation. The act of weaving the coffin provides space for mourners to be present with their own grief and healing process. The deceased is then wrapped in an object of love that their family and friends created.
New Hampshire Resources, Education & Advocacy - https://www.nhfuneral.org/green-burialcemeteries-in-the-us-and-canada.html
NHFREA provides a comprehensive, updated list of all cemeteries and burial grounds providing natural burials in the US and Canada. Also, a great resource for accurate information about body care during the pandemic
Parting Stone – http://www.partingstone.com/
Many people just see cremation as a convenient form of disposition. Parting Stone sees it as a platform for healing, growth, and engagement. We are witnessing the beginning of a death movement away from the limitations of traditional funeral solutions. Parting Stone is mobilizing in this unique moment to create a new foundation for an inspired future for death and dying. Parting Stone transforms ashes of both humans and animals into beautiful stones that can be treasured at home and remind you of your loved one.
Recompose – http://www.recompose.life/
Recompose offers an alternative choice to cremation and conventional burial methods. Our service gently converts human remains into soil, so that we can nourish new life after we die.
Spirit Pieces - www.spiritpieces.com
Spirit Pieces carries a wide selection of handmade cremation ash keepsakes online and we’re thrilled to be working with dozens of talented artists to have this happen. If you would like to meet our artists (now 40+), click this link.