‘Better Place Forests’ Burial Alternative Is Coming To Northern Illinois

What do you plan to do with your body after you die? Instead of hav­ing it buried in a grave with a tomb­stone, some peo­ple are choos­ing to have their ash­es spread beneath a pri­vate tree.

Bet­ter Place Forests is respond­ing to that trend by turn­ing for­est land into memo­r­i­al pre­serves. There are five in the coun­try, with two in the works, includ­ing one in north­ern Illinois.

Sandy Gib­son is the CEO and founder of Bet­ter Place Forests. He says his ear­ly expe­ri­ence with death led him to cre­ate this com­pa­ny. When he was a lit­tle boy, his par­ents died with­in one year of each other.

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