Green Burial Services in Louisiana

Planning a perfect green burial service is difficult during emotional times. Outsourcing burial preparation services comes in handy during these moments. We offer the best compassionate green burial services at Kilpatrick's Rose-Neath Funeral Homes, Crematorium, and Cemeteries, Inc., enabling families to pay their last tributes decently, beautifully, and stress-free.

What Are Green Burial Services?

A green or natural burial is a simple and environmentally friendly burial that does not involve chemicals or concrete. Green burials are not new trends since burials used to be carried out this way before the mid-19th century. 

Green Burial Vs. Traditional Burial

Families are different, and not everyone wants the same type of burial. Today, most burial services are influenced by religion, cost, personal preference, and cultural traditions. These factors determine whether the funeral will be simple, private, public, religious, secular, and location. Green burial and traditional burial are some of the most common burials in the United States but have major differences depending on how they are conducted. 

A green burial provides a wonderful opportunity to honor the life of your loved one while respecting and conserving the environment and natural resources. A green burial is unique because the body is not cremated, embalmed with chemicals, or buried in a concrete vault. Instead, it is placed in a biodegradable container in its natural state and interred in a grave site to decompose fully and return to nature. 

Green burial sections usually do not allow upright monuments, so graves are identified using markers such as trees, stones, and scrubs. Some natural burial grounds families might choose for their loved ones include conservation centers, hybrid cemeteries, and natural burial grounds.

A traditional burial is different from a green burial as it involves embalming the body with chemicals, viewing the body, a formal funeral service, and burying it in a casket or a vault in a public cemetery. Most of these activities are environmentally unfriendly. In addition, this is considered the most expensive type of burial since you have to pay for the funeral home services, transport, casket, and cemetery plot.

The Green Experience

Honoring an individual's last wish is crucial and satisfying. Conducting a green burial on a loved one is one of the best ways to honor them. Green burial offers many opportunities for families to participate throughout the burial process. Families and friends appreciate the experience of engaging in activities such as lowering the body into the grave, filling in the grave space, and marking the grave with a tree or stone.

Green Burial Personalization

Most families in the United States choose green burials, as they are less expensive and allow personalization, which allows more participation. During green burials, families can create a ceremony that matches the deceased's life and express their love for nature and simplicity. In addition, family members might engage in personal activities such as viewing the body, decorating the casket with biodegradable paint, dressing the deceased, planting a tree or flowers at the gravesite, and witnessing the burial.

Plan Ahead Today

Death is inevitable; hence pre-planning your burial is advisable, especially if you are advanced in age. Preplanning a green burial has several benefits. At Kilpatrick's Rose-Neath, we assist you in pre-planning your burial by guiding you on your burial service needs in advance. Coming up with a burial plan ahead of time helps eliminate unnecessary stress associated with burial preparations when one dies. Benefits of planning include: 

Relieves the burden from the family

When one dies, the family and friends are left with the stress of making important decisions, even when grieving. Sometimes they have to plan a funeral and often wonder whether it is what you would have wanted. Pre-planning your green funeral helps eliminate the stress of making decisions and gives your family a chance to heal quickly. 

It gives you peace of mind.

Kilpatrick's Rose-Neath guarantees you and your family peace of mind since we pre-plan your natural burial as you direct us. Your family will also rest easy at the time of death, knowing that you have handled all the uncomfortable decisions they would have made.

You let your wishes be known. 

Each family member might wish to do something for their loved one after death, leading to conflicts and disagreements. By pre-planning, you let your family know your wishes and how you want your green burial carried out. 

Prepares flexible funding options

Planning your green burial ahead of time allows you to arrange funding options for the actual burial service.

Choose a North West Louisiana Funeral Home

If you or your loved one is considering having a green burial in Northwest Louisiana, Kilpatrick's Rose-Neath Funeral Homes, Crematorium, and Cemeteries Inc. is the ideal place to consult as we offer exceptional, personal, and affordable services. In addition, we have multiple locations in the region, which makes it easy to access our variety of services that guarantee peace of mind for your family. Contact us for more information and our green burial services.