100 years ago Americans handled death at home, while decades of funeral service providers' efforts to sanitize our experiences with death have trained us to upscale and outsource the process of grief and burial. To compete with the heavily marketed and entrenched funeral and cemetery establishment, Nathan Butler is able to make it very easy for clients to choose a service that is now out of the ordinary.
    Our “Green” or natural funeral service was created to promote choice regarding all aspects of after-death practices including care of the body, casket options, transport of the body and end of life rituals and ceremonies. Our “Green” services are conducted in a manner that focuses on allowing nature to biodegrade human remains quickly.
'And the Lord God formed mankind of the dust of the ground, and breathed into their nostrils the breath of life, and they became living beings.' (Genesis 2:7) 'Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.' (Genesis 3:19)
    Modern urban cemeteries may have as many as 3,000 graves per acre in sterile, toxic environments where embalmed bodies are sequestered in bronze, steel, or copper caskets or concrete vaults where they are kept from returning to the earth as God and nature intended. Modern American families spend many thousands of dollars for elaborate burials, wasting money that could have been used to send grandchildren to college, pay for health care for elderly family members, or for charitable causes.

Listen to Mark Harris's interview, about Green Burials, WFIU 2007.

 

ITEMIZATION OF GOODS AND SERVICES

The goods and services shown below are those we can provide to our customers. You may choose only those items you desire. However, any funeral arrangements you select will include a charge for our basic services and overhead. If legal or other requirements necessitate the purchase of any items you did not specifically ask for, we will explain the reason in writing on the statement we provide describing the funeral goods and services you selected.

Prices as of August 5, 2010 subject to change without notice.

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sm_sixfeetunder_0422+ZGreen Burial Service

All services plus grave, opening, and tax

(No embalming)

 

 

$3200

Includes:

$1000 Basic services of funeral director and staff

$400 Transfer of remains*

$500 Preparation of remains without embalming

$500 Committal service

$600 Wicker Casket or Hendrickson Oak veneer casket

$100 Funeral Program

$30 Guest Register

$70 Obituary

 

 

$600 Hendrickson

Oak veneer with solid oak trim

Cloth interior

 

 

 

*Transportation anywhere in Indiana Included; additional charge for transfer of remains outside of the state: $2.50 per mile one-way.

Prices as of August 5, 2010 subject to change without notice.