Fort Collins in forefront of "green" burial movement - The Denver Post.
By Monte Whaley
The Denver Post Posted:
09/17/2009
Phil Carpenter doesn't believe Fort Collins is doing anything new by setting aside a 1-acre piece of the city cemetery for people to be laid to rest without benefit of a vault or embalming.
Heck, he says, this "green" burial movement is really about revisiting America's frontier days. "We're basically going back to the 1860s," said Carpenter, the city's supervisor of cemeteries.
"Back then, when you wanted to bury Grandma, you wrapped her up in a quilt and put her in the ground," he said.
Still, Carpenter is proud Fort Collins is pioneering green burials on the Front Range.
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