2 Sep 2019

As cemeteries fill, alternatives to burial

From Nine To Noon, 9:37 am on 2 September 2019
Waikumete Cemetery.

Waikumete Cemetery. Photo: Auckland Council.

Death Researcher Ruth McManus chats to Lynn about alternative options to burial. More than 30 thousand people died in New Zealand last year and some cemeteries are running out of space. Ruth McManus is is speaking at the No Barriers -  Small Island Big Ideas  on Great Barrier Island and she has contributed a chapter on innovations for sustainable body dissolution - for the book Death and Dying in New Zealand.