Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK which does not have a natural burial ground.
What would you like to happen to your remains after you die?
There are 270 natural burial sites across the UK, which require bodies to be buried in biodegradable coffins without using embalming fluid.Rosie Inman-Cook manages the Natural Death Centre, a charity which offers advice on environmentally-friendly funerals. But she can only advise them to go to the Republic of Ireland, where there are currently two natural burial grounds, one in County Wicklow and one in County Galway.
She said the average cremation releases more than 80 kilos of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, along with other toxic emissions such as mercury vapour.
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