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Joel Siegel of ABC Weekend News reports about Green Cemeteries in US and interviews tree owners at EcoEternity Forest Pocono Plateau
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Green Graveyards Offer Burial Without a Trace
'We Both Like the Outdoors and This Just Kind of Appealed to Us,' Couple Says
The wooded forests of the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania are a beautiful place to spend an afternoon, or in some cases all of eternity. Judy Vaughn and Bob Staples have purchased a space at one of the country's newest green cemeteries, the EcoEternity Forest.
"Being buried out under a tree, my ashes, biodegradable, to me that just sounded more natural, more comforting," said Vaughn. When they die, they will be cremated and buried in a biodegradable urn, under their chosen tree, with no marker other than a small plaque.
"I just felt in a matter of a year or so we would not be taking up any space. We would actually be giving ourselves back to nature," said Staples. With these earth friendly burials, there are no caskets, no embalming and no tombstones.
Jack Lowe is the founder of EcoEternity says there are no plastic flowers or teddy bears in this remembrance but instead when you walk through an EcoEternity forest, it looks natural. So natural, that an average person can't tell where someone is buried.
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