ISBN:
9780415631686
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (234 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Natural Burial : Landscape, Practice and Experience
DDC:
393.1
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book unravels the many different experiences, meanings and realities of natural burial. Twenty years after the first natural burial ground opened there is an opportunity to reflect on how a concept for a very different approach to caring for our dead has become a reality: new providers, new landscapes and a hybrid of new and traditional rituals. In this short time the natural burial movement has flourished. In the UK there are more than 200 sites, and the concept has travelled to North America, Holland, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. This survey of natural burials draws on interviews w
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Digging deeper; The fate of the body; Back to nature?; Hallowed ground?; 2 The inception and development of natural burial in the UK; From environmental conservation to natural burial; Woodland burial as practice; The UK and its emerging natural burial landscape; Distribution of UK natural burial sites; Distribution of sites by ownership and design interpretation; Emerging trends in ownership and design interpretation 1993-2010; 2010 onwards
Description / Table of Contents:
International context of natural burialDemand for natural burial in the UK; Summary; 3 The landscape of natural burial and motivations of providers; Setting the scene: introduction to the four research sites; Site one: Woodland Burial Ground, Wisewood Cemetery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire; Site two: Green Lane Burial Field and Nature Reserve, Abermule, Montgomery Mid Wales; Site three: South Yorkshire Woodland Burial Ground, Ulley, Rotherham, South Yorkshire; Site four: South Downs Natural Burial Site, the Sustainability Centre, East Meon, Petersfield, Hampshire
Description / Table of Contents:
What is the motivation to open a natural burial ground?Local authorities; Farmers; Funeral directors; Charitable trusts; Independent landowners; Private companies; Summary; 4 Designing and making the natural burial ground; Finding the grave in nature; Designing for nature; New woodland burial; Woodland through burial: sequential, dispersed, grove and scattered models of design; Woodland independent of burial; Mature woodland burial; Wildflower meadow burial; Memorialisation in the absence of a headstone; Servicing the natural burial ground: buildings, thresholds and processions; Summary
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Ethnography of a natural burial groundInhabiting the burial ground; Introducing bereaved people to East Meon; Digging the grave; Funeral days; Procession; Committal and backfilling the grave; Memorial landscapes: a place for bereaved people; Burial ground communities; Summary; 6 Choosing, doing and living with natural burial; Four natural burial journeys after bereavement; Ros Eastman, East Meon; Allan Holbrook, Abermule; Maggie Carter, Ulley; Marie Cooper, Wisewood; Summary; 7 Natural burial: new endings, old habits?; Funeral directors' perceptions and experiences
Description / Table of Contents:
Promoting natural burial to bereaved peopleDelivering the funeral; Time and emotion; All dressed in black?; Keeping their distance?; The body: between death and burial; Celebrants' perceptions and experiences; Engaging with natural burial; Meeting the needs of bereaved people; Working in the natural burial ground; Summary; 8 Ulley: natural burial through time; Part I: creating a woodland; Grave and woodland distribution; Changing woodland character; Part II: observing and inhabiting the burial ground; Winter, spring, summer and autumn: the changing year; Winter; Spring; Summer; Autumn
Description / Table of Contents:
The grave
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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