Tree burials as undefined spatial alternatives for graves in France: stakes and constraints of nature-based concessions within French funerary regulations.
In line with green and natural death movements, new burial practices have been emerging in France since the turn of the twenty-first century, leading to alternative cemetery typologies, such as wooded cinerary sites dedicated to interring or scattering cremated remains at the foot of trees. Using an...
| Published in: | Mortality Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 377 - 396 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2025
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