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  • Gisborne district / Tairawhiti

    We now have a local natural burial advocacy group in the Gisborne / tairawhiti region. If you’d like to help them organise for a cemetery in the region…

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  • Taylor Made Caskets website

    The people at Taylor Made make beautiful caskets. We’ve just certified some of their range. We were impressed with their committment to the principle of adding nothing synthetic…

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  • South Island cemetery update

    SOUTH ISLAND CEMETERIES: We’ve had a large number of inquiries from the south island recently about local natural cemeteries. You are now well served. The natural cemetery we…

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  • Kiwis ahead of Italian designers

    The natural burials concept touted by Italian designers on a tour of New Zealand arranged by the Italian Embassy, started here ten years ago, and the nation now…

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  • Why cremations are bad

    Cremation turns your body into air pollution and barren ash. Studies of emissions reveal that cremation turns people into at least 46 different pollutants. Some of these, like…

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  • Printing on caskets is not natural

    There is a growing fashion for printing scenes onto caskets, so we’re being asked if this is compatible with natural burials. The core principle of a natural burial…

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