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We’re passionate about serving families and conserving our environment. We are committed to make Countryside Memorial Park an Earth Friendly and affordable option. We are also here as guides to empower families that feel the special need to be a part of caring for their own deceased love ones if they choose to do so.
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Helpful Information
Books and Videos
Award Winning Documentary
“What if our last act could be a gift to the planet? Musician and psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial in this immersive documentary. While battling lymphoma, Clark has discovered a burgeoning movement that uses burial to conserve and restore natural areas, forgoing typical funeral practices that stress the ecosystem. Boldly facing his mortality, Clark and his partner Jane have become passionate about green burial, compelled by both the environmental benefits and the idea that one can remain within the cycle of life, rather than being cut off from it. The spirited pair have inspired a compassionate local cemeterian, and together they aim to use green burial to save a North Carolina woods from being clear-cut.”
Grave Matters follows families who found in “green” burial a more natural, more economic, and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor.
Eventually death greets us all, and it’s important to decide what you’d like to become of your body. What sort of environmental footprint will you leave? In this video, Funeral director Caitlin Doughty addresses these questions, and explores ideas for burial such conservation burial. These methods give our body back to the earth in an environmentally friendly, humble, and self-aware way.
Chrysta Bell Zucht is an internationally known Actor, Musician and the Steward of Countryside Memorial Park. She has always shared her father’s passion for Natural Burials, and upon his unexpected death in 2009 had the soul-satisfying experience of giving him the green burial he had always wanted. She remains deeply dedicated to Countryside and has vowed to continue to offer it as a serene, peaceful place for eco-conscious families to bury, memorialize and celebrate their Beloveds.
Music adds a memorable and deeply moving element to any ceremony, especially if it is music that your Loved One loved.