Going green: Eau Claire man hopes to bring natural cemetery to area

Lloyd Shepherd is trying to figure out what to do with his body when he’s done with it.

After deciding against a traditional burial, he briefly settled on cremation. But it wasn’t until after he attended an open house at a natural cemetery in southern Wisconsin that he felt he had found the best option for his remains after shuffling off this mortal coil.

“I find standard burial kind of creepy, myself,” Shepherd said. “I was researching things a bit and convinced my son and even my grandson to come to the open house with me.”

The cemetery Shepherd and his family visited, Natural Path Sanctuary, is part of a nature preserve near Verona that includes 25 acres of woods and meadows, a pond and rocky ridges...

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Ken Notes: I support any effort that brings nature and the public together. What if we could get a whole new type of land trust dedicated to those whose remains remain there.