The Natural Burial Eco-Trend Reaches Montana

John Overmyer
Missoula Independent | September 17, 2009
Every year, traditional burials put an estimated 30 million board feet of casket wood, 1.6 million tons of concrete from burial vaults, more than 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid and 90,000 tons of steel from caskets into the ground. Whatever happened to naturally returning to the earth?

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