The ecology of burial: Choices reflect beliefs about life after death

January 21, 2017
By Robert Duncan, Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Vatican City - In a craftsman’s workshop on the edge of Rome’s Campo Verano cemetery, two designers are working to revive what they see as a dying art: burial.

Unlike the masons who make the cemetery’s gravestones and memorials, Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel are fashioning biodegradable burial pods.