Earth to Earth - Natural Burial and the Church of England
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Natural burial is the process by which the body is buried in the ground without inhibiting the decomposition process, thus allowing for a true symbiosis with the environment, resulting in significant ecological benefits. The first example of an area entirely dedicated to this funerary practice was established in 1993 in Carlisle, a small English town on the Scottish border. Sarah Thomas explores the Barton Glebe site, inaugurated in 2000 near Cambridge, also in England, thus revealing, thanks in part to interviews with people with varying degrees of ties to this site, a new way of approaching and considering death.
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