How to Buy

How to Buy one of our natural coffins or other products

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You can purchase our coffins through any funeral service provider, including funeral directors, home funeral guides, clergy, co-ops, memorial societies, celebrants, and others who want to work with you.  

Our stocking resellers have access to all our stock, as well as a woven coffin or two on hand, and are developing natural funeral options that deliver the same careful service you expect from a funeral home, but with a natural touch.

If you don't need additional funeral services, you can also buy direct from us in many parts of the United States and Canada. However, unless you have experience with coffins and funerals, we STRONGLY RECOMMEND using an experienced funeral service provider (either home or conventional) or other consultant to assist you.

If you are working with a funeral home, we can deliver directly to them. FTC law says that all funeral directors must accept a coffin from a third-party seller (us) without charge to you.  

PLEASE NOTE: WE HAVE VERY LIMITED RETAIL CUSTOMER SUPPORT FOR PLANNING OR ORGANIZING FUNERAL SERVICES AT THIS TIME.

Experienced funeral service providers are trained in the use of caskets in your city or state, and they can supply you with this assistance.

WHOLESALE to FUNERAL SERVICE PROVIDERS AND GROUPS

We provide wholesale discounts for reseller, group and volume purchases. If you are a current funeral service products or services provider and would like to resell our products to the general public, please contact us directly for pricing and availability, as well as our requirements for becoming a "Referred Reseller".

If you represent a church group or non-profit and currently offer end-of-life services but are not a licensed funeral home, we will be glad to speak with you about whether or not our product line is right for the community you serve.

Please contact us directly to learn about our wholesaling opportunities.


Img0489WHERE CAN YOU GO for a Natural Burial?

Many folks wonder where they can get a natural burial. In the UK, over 200 woodland burial sites around the country now offer people a wide selection of opportunities for a natural end, where you can be buried without embalming, in a biodegradable casket, and "turn into a tree." We keep a growing list on our website.

A small but growing number of sites are available in the US and, while we don't have many official conservation cemeteries yet, you can make a natural start just by finding a cemetery that will accept your biodegradable casket without a outer liner or vault. Pioneer cemeteries may do this, as may private cemeteries who do not have to adhere to a corporate policy that needs vault sales for profit margins and landscape maintenance. Be sure to read the free online excerpt of "Be a Tree, the Manual for Turning Yourself into a Forest", to learn more about this exciting field.

No one is yet creating a comprehensive list of North American natural burial options. We keep a short list in the sidebar to the right of this page, and will develop something more comprehensive in the very near future.

IF YOU OFFER NATURAL BURIAL, PLEASE LET US KNOW

If you learn of (or operate) a cemetery that offers liner-free, vault-free burials anywhere in the US or Canada but NOT in the Jewish section (since non-Jews are not allowed there)  please let us know.

Natural Burial Company's Displaying Resellers

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NORTH AMERICAN NATURAL FUNERAL SERVICE PROVIDERS' LIST

Contact us for a referral to the closest natural funeral service provider near you that has said they offer environmentally-friendly options. Natural Burial Company resellers are listed below, by region.

Our displaying resellers often carry one or more of our woven coffins in stock and any funeral service provider can special-order items from us on your behalf,

We will sell retail if:

1) you are sure of what you want (no returns on coffins),
2) you are planning a home funeral and are NOT working with a funeral service guide or professional (in which case, let them help you), and
3) you can take delivery at your home (or you have a funeral director to receive). 

Visit our "How to Buy" page for more information on purchasing.

No matter what, PLEASE remember to pre-plan with a funeral service provider and/or fully inform family members of your wishes. You can learn more about options for natural funerals and burial at http://www.beatree.com (Be a Tree, the Natural Burial Guide for Turning Yourself into a Forest.")


the NATURAL BURIAL COMPANY'S DISPLAYING RESELLERS by Region:


Pacific Northwest USA and Western Canada

Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home serves Ashland, Medford, and the surrounding areas of Southern Oregon. You can view an online video of Tim Simonsen explaining the personalization services of his company at the Funeral Gurus website. Litwiller-Simonsen stocks Somerset Willow coffins and FTP Seagrass, and is working with local cemeteries to add the natural burial option for its community's many environmentally aware residents.

1811 Ashland Street, Ashland, Oregon, 97520 -- 541-482-2816


Mt. Scott Funeral Home, established in 1924, has been helping families cope with the loss of a loved one for over 80 years.  Family owned and operated for three generations, we strongly believe in treating our families with the compassion, integrity, and professionalism we would want to receive. Mt. Scott offers conventional as well as natural burial "packages", including no-embalming, a biodegradable or clean burning coffin, and assistance in locating a natural burial opportunity in a cemetery.

"People's Memorial Funeral Cooperative provides simple dignified, affordable final arrangements to residents of the Seattle – King County, Washington area. While the vast majority of our members choose simple cremation, we offer the full range of cremation and burial choices. As a member-owned cooperative, our focus is on serving our members and their families rather than on meeting sales quotas."


Midwest USA


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 "The family tradition started when Elmer and Inez Gunderson founded Gunderson Funeral Home in 1922..."Most of the people that walk through our door know Bob or myself and our family from the past 80 years here in Madison. Many of them we can call by name when they walk through the door." 

  • Madison, Wisconsin
  • Stoughton, Wisconsin
  • Middleton, Wisconsin
  • Oregon, Wisconsin
  • Cross Plains, Wisconsin


Randle_dable.staff"Randle-Dable Funeral, Cremation and Pre-Planning Services is a family-owned funeral home with deep roots in the Waukesha community dating dack to 1891. Our goal is to serve you and your family with dignity, pride, and honor while showing we care. We realize there is no typical funeral service and that each family has its own special-need customs and traditions. We are dedicated to helping you create a final tribute for your loved one."

1110 South Grand Avenue   Waukesha , WI 53186      262-547-4035




Northeast USA

  • Bob_prout_at_expo Prout Funeral Home - Verona, New Jersey
    • 370 Bloomfield Avenue
      Verona, NJ 07044
      Phone Number: (973) 239-2060
                        

Prout Funeral Home is a full-service funeral home in northern New Jersey, just 15 minutes from New York. Featured in a number of newspaper and magazine articles, Prout's is well-known for its natural approach. In addition to being an innovative 3rd generation service that has its electricity supplied by solar panels, they offer home-funeral facilitation, formaldehyde-free embalming and no embalming treatments, and also stock a wide range of the Natural Burial Company's wicker coffins. They have work with natural burial cemeteries, including Greensprings in upstate New York and Steelmantown Cemetery in New Jersey.



Nicos C. Elias Funeral Home - Allentown, Pennsylvania

  • Nicos.c.elias.funeral.home 1227 Hamilton St
    Allentown, Pennsylvania  18102
    Phone Number: (610) 433-2200
                     

"Going green means taking a new ecologically friendly approach to death and funerals. While there are few “green” cemeteries in the U.S., we can still recommend ways to have less of an impact on our environment where funerals are concerned. Some options are biodegradable caskets, urns, preservation without embalming, and even avoiding steel and concrete tombs altogether. For us, it also means using “green” and eco-friendly cleaning products for our disinfecting and sanitizing procedures."



    • Ecopods, Somerset Willows, and fine-art coffins; Boston

Ecopodbrochurepart1_0001 ...At Mourning Dove Studio we offer one of a kind hand made life chests, caskets, urns, and shrouds. We also provide eco-friendly products newly available in this country, such as the ARKA Ecopod and the Somerset Willow casket. Our mission is to inspire you to take control of how you mark the milestones of life and death. Our products and services help you to personalize final rites of passage and leave a legacy of love. We also offer creative workshops to support you in making your own memorial art...


CANADA - Toronto

Ogden_funeral_homeOgden Funeral Home - Toronto, Ontario

  • AGINCOURT CHAPEL
    4164 Sheppard Avenue East
    Agincourt, Ontario M1S 1T3
    Phone number - 416 293-5211

Ogden Funeral Home -- Since 1948 the Ogden Family has been providing family owned funeral services to the Metropolitan Toronto area for three generations. As needs have changed over time Ogden Funeral Homes and staff have adapted to meet any unique requirements of families, regardless of faith or religion.


NATURAL BURIAL COMPANY RESELLER - QUICK LIST

The list below is not a complete list of all the providers who may offer our coffins - please contact us to find out about all of the resellers in your region.



    IF YOU CAN'T FIND A RESELLER:

    NOTE:: Any funeral service professional or home funeral guide is welcome to order our coffins on your behalf. In cases where there is no reseller conveniently near you, or if you are purchasing your own coffin for a home funeral, we will be glad to talk with you about providing you one directly.


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