Fallbrook cemetery to offer green burials

FALLBROOK – The Masonic Cemetery Association of Fallbrook is now certified by the Green Burial Council as a Hybrid Burial Grounds and meets or exceeds all standards for the certification.

A hybrid green burial is when a cemetery that provides traditional burials for caskets where the decedents may have been embalmed, also offers green or natural burials.

With this process, burials are performed using a natural woven casket or a shroud made of organic fabric. The idea of the body in a shroud or placing it in plain unadorned casket appeals to those who prefer their burial arrangement to be simpl...