Marianne L. Whitlock, a Quaker, only wanted a simple burial. Kendal Meeting did not have a burial committee, so she paid a funeral director for an immediate no embalming burial which cost less than $2,000. Her body was shrouded with regular sheets and laid on a plank from a catalpa tree that had recently been cut down and made into lumber. The women of Lancaster Meeting of PA dug the grave (three feet deep under PA law because of no casket or vault). Her husband and children put arbor vitae branches onto the grave and began the shoveling. A service followed in the Meetinghouse. Cost of shroud, opening the grave and funeral service – $0. Value to family and friends – priceless. You do not need a green cemetery to have a green burial. As long as it is a shroud burial, subsidence is minimal and not a problem for the cemetery.
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