SPIRIT SANCTUARY

GREEN BURIAL GROUNDS - Essex, New York

"Green burial may be the closest thing we can achieve to immortality."

- John Davis (principal grave-digger)

Spirit Sanctuary is a 3 acre private burial ground in Essex, New York, where the deceased will naturally become a part of the earth and nourish a forever-regenerating forest. It is, and forever will be, a place of protected habitat for native plants, birds, and other animals. Visitors to Spirit Sanctuary will experience life in its many forms and be comforted by the great circle of existence.

Selecting this end of life ‘green’ option can also benefit the conservation organizations you care about. Spirit Sanctuary offers a greatly discounted burial price for those who have remembered a conservation organization in their end of life financial planning. Your family benefits by spending less on burial, your conservation partners benefit by having funds go to their mission, and the Earth benefits by turning bodies into forever-protected new life. Make one of your final actions to support good causes and a greener legacy.

HOW IT WORKS

A family or individual reserves a burial site ahead of time, and shows that a portion of the estate (no minimum requirement, but at least a tithe urged) will go to pre-approved conservation groups, Spirit Sanctuary charges considerably less than conventional burial costs, and uses the modest fee to cover our administrative and management costs, including burial itself. (Rewilding Earth editor John Davis is our principal grave-digger!)

The Spirit Sanctuary team works with an end of life consultant who introduces the process of reserving a site in Spirit Sanctuary and shares information about other services that are available. (As examples, end of life body care may be provided, a pre-interment service may be held at a nearby farm, or a local horse drawn wagon may be hired to carry the deceased to the gravesite.)

Families who do not plan ahead, and have not reserved a site and committed money to land protection groups, will still be allowed to be interred for a modest price. Excess money will go towards the Eddy Foundation's administrative costs for conserving wildlife habitat, in accordance with its mission.

LOCATION

The Spirit Sanctuary is located at 304 Cook Road in Essex, New York.

The Sanctuary is nestled in the the beautiful Champlain Valley, with beautiful Lake Champlain to the east and the foothills of the Adirondacks to the west.

The Sanctuary lies directly in the Split Rock Wildway Corridor on the eastern edge of the Adirondack Park.