Promessa founder Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak has developed an ecological burial process that allows the body to be restored to the earth as naturally as possible. Image credit: Promessa, Niklas Johansson.

A wicker-woven casket emerged from a funeral hearse earlier this month at the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery for what would be the final resting place of Barbara Finley James. The coffin, modest ...

That might be literally true. When buried in the cemetery two years ago, Jake Miller was placed directly into the ground with no casket and no preservatives – just a wicker basket and a shroud. “He ...