There is now a move towards a more 'green' type of burial whichpromotes bio-degradable coffins and gives the option of a woodlandburial. The Natural Death Centre www.naturaldeath.org.uk is a charitable project launched in Britain in 1991. It provides information to help people arrange inexpensive, family-organised, and environmentally-friendly funerals. It has a more general aim of helping to improve the quality of dying.