How we care for our dead has a tangible impact on the earth. From industrial body care outsourcing to concrete vaults to flame cremation, we have distanced ourselves from processes that are having an impact on our culture and environment in significant ways. Join us as we explore the principles of sustainable funeral options that seek to promote climate resiliency, address funeral poverty, and create community. We’ll also learn about what’s happening here in the Lakes Region and White Mountains to bring sustainable burial to our area.

Lee Webster is a nationally recognized public speaker and author of several books and articles on funeral reform, including home funerals and green burial. She has served in major leadership positions of the Green Burial Council, Conservation Burial Alliance, National Home Funeral Alliance, National End-of-Life Doula Alliance, and is the director of New Hampshire Funeral Resources & Education, President of Natural Burial New Hampshire, and is a co-creator of the Funeral Partnership. Webster co-teaches the Green Burial Masterclass and other end-of-life and after-death education courses at Redesigning the End, and guest lectures in colleges, universities, and mortuary schools throughout the country, including OSHER Dartmouth, OLLI UNH, and others.