Lampeter Green Burial Grounds
Mission: To provide a resource for cemetery management and a forum for discussion of our religious views on the disposition of human remains.
1. Religious: Originally Friends were buried in orchards, gardens, and fields in plain planked coffins by their fellow Friends (Clarkson, Portraiture of Quakerism). Today we have many different paths open to us - donation, cremation, hydrolysis, and burial.
2. Financial: We will explain how you can build an endowment without increasing the cost of a funeral. But, diverting substantial revenues to a cemetery does require hands on involvement.
3. Grounds Management: Here we examine practical issues such as subsidence, wall and monument maintenance, and green burial concerns.
4. Legal: With help from Funeral Consumers Alliance, which tracks the laws in all the states through its 80+ affiliates, we can link you to your state's laws.
5. Simple Funerals: This is the term funeral directors use when referring to Friends (mostly conservative) who do not use their services. While we have centuries of hands on experience, some meetings have joined with the home funeral movement (National Home Funeral Alliance), they have brought a fresh new life to our work.
We invite you to participate by sharing your experiences.
David Morrison, Coordinator, dmorrison3091@comcast.net
-Guest lecturer in Funeral and Burial Law, Penn State Law School; Trustee (with Mike Kinch), Lampeter and Cambridge Green Burial Grounds; Co-convener, Lancaster MM (PA) Care Group for Death and Dying; Member, Board of Directors, PA Cemetery Assn. (PACCFA).
Burial Process
Quaker Burial Societies: Departing in the Company of Brethren
“Every organization calls itself into being as a belief that something more can be accomplished by joining with others. . . .” Read more here.
Learn about the Lampeter Green Burial Grounds' approach to the end of life as written by Ashana Marie Larsen for Natural Transitions.
at 2641 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bird in Hand, Pennsylvania [GPS only]
Mail: c/o Dave Morrison, 323 Templar Dr, Elizabethtown, PA 17022 • Phone: (717) 682-2873
Mail: c/o Mike Kinch, 23 Fawn Dr, Quarryville, PA 17566 • Phone: (717) 572-7337
"Get decent burying places for your dead. and let them be decent, and well fenced that
[it] may show a good example to the world in all things."
Discipline of Friends Vol. 1, p. 136, 2 mo. 8, 1836
All are welcome.
