Elizabeth Fournier Shares Insights on Green Burial and More

As consumer preferences continue to evolve, cemeteries are increasingly at the center of one of death care’s most significant shifts: the rise of green burial.

Elizabeth Fournier, owner of Cornerstone Funeral Services in Boring, Oregon — and a longtime advocate of green burial — recently sat down with CemeteryVision.com to share a grounded, practical look at how the green burial movement is reshaping cemetery operations.

Fournier, a 36-year veteran of the profession, has spent more than two decades advocating for environmentally conscious end-of-life options. In the conversation, she traces her early exposure to cemetery work, which included living and working in a cemetery during college, to her current role as a national voice for green burial.

For cemetery operators, her insights are particularly relevant. Fournier emphasizes that green burial is not a fringe concept, but an adaptable model that can be integrated into existing cemetery infrastructure.

Her perspective is further detailed in her books, including The Green Burial Guidebook, The Green Reaper: Memoirs of an Ecomortician and All Men Are Cremated Equal: My 77 Blind Dates.

Watch the interview here or below.