villacustom.blogg.se - Clovery woods of rest

Our biodegradable-only policy for tributes is making progress but there are still some coming in with oases or bits of plastic or metal which we do not allow so please remember to adhere to our policy.They can either have a place round the edge of the circle, have a dedicated tree planted in the new wood area or a place in the same area beside our newly planted hedge. Our new dedicated tree area is proving popular and we have noticed an increased demand for interments of ashes so can now offer 3 alternatives for those who want this service.Unfortunately we suffered quite a lot of damage from storm Arwen and had to take down quite a lot of trees but we are slowly getting things put to rights and hope to have the affected trees replaced soon.This means a lot to us as it is awarded on the comments received from our customers and helps us to improve our service.

As you may have heard we won the Natural Death Centre award for the best natural burial ground in Scotland 2022.

* Rural New Zealanders and South Islanders are more likely to have church-based funerals than their North Island counterparts. * Funeral attendances tend to be much larger in rural areas than in cities. * Approximately 75 per cent of funerals in cities are cremations and 90 per cent in rural areas are burials. Lowest life expectancies are in rural areas, Northland (75.5), West Coast (75.4), and Gisborne (73.3). Regionally, Canterbury has the highest life expectancy at 77.8 years, then Auckland (77.7), Otago and Nelson/Marlborough/Tasman (77.6). * There were 26,650 deaths in New Zealand in the year ending September 2000, down 4.6 per cent on the previous year * Most people now die after retirement age, a trend which has become more pronounced in the last two decades * Average life expectancy in New Zealand is 79.6 years for women and 74.3 years for men. DEATH DETAILS * The average cost of a funeral is $4465 for a burial, and $3718 for cremation. An ordinary standard casket costs about $800. Living Legacies' simple cardboard coffin with canvas handles costs $100. There are no woodland burial grounds in New Zealand, but the owner of a Motueka funeral service specialising in environmentally friendly funerals, Lynda Hannah, of Living Legacies, said she was in the process of trying to get them established. Mr Resnick did not know why the Avenue was not more popular, but said people might be put off by not being able to erect a headstone. Everything in the coffin and on the body must be biodegradable, and a tree is used to mark the spot - no headstones allowed. For burial in the Avenue, the cemetery stipulates that a casket of untreated timber must be used and the body must not be embalmed.

Waikumete Cemetery general manager Graham Resnick said only two of the 25 plots at Waikumete's "Avenue of Remembrance" - designed for green funerals - had been taken since it was established in 1996. But it seems New Zealanders are not rushing to book grandma a green funeral.

Woodland burials are also providing a new source of income for Britain's hard-pressed farmers and are, say enthusiasts, a romantic and practical way to rebuild native woodlands. Ornate polished hardwood caskets are replaced by biodegradable cardboard coffins, or even wicker and cloth. In contrast to the formality and blandness of modern council cemeteries, "green" burial grounds feature young forests, copses and flower meadows. The Natural Death Centre in London estimates that hundreds of people are now being buried every month in cemeteries where headstones are replaced by trees such as birch, oak and rowan, or discreet wooden sculptures to mark out a grave. Alex Rankin's site, Clovery Woods of Rest, near Aberdeenshire, is the latest of more than 140 "green" cemeteries that have sprung up around Britain since the first opened nine years ago. Now a Scottish farmer has opened Britain's biggest "green burial ground", converting 15ha of farmland into a woodland cemetery with room for 12,000 graves. After decades of increasingly elaborate funerals, thousands of people are going back to basics, buying cardboard coffins and planting trees in place of headstones. By ANNE BESTON and THE INDEPENDENT Barbara Cartland did it, and actor Ralph Fiennes chose it for his mother.