While walking through a traditional cemetery, Trish Penner thinks about death, burials and ways to make the grim subject more bearable.
“I think there needs to be more conversations about what death is and what we expect and how to be more death-positive and be a bit more proactive,” Penner said. “It’s a super vulnerable time in life for a lot of people.”
This all started about five years ago.
Penner, a physician and former hospital chaplain, dealt with death often and she started thinking about ways to make it more environmentally friendly.
“We are trying to go back to how they were maybe 100, 150 years ago,” Penner said.
So Penner founded the Green Cemetery Project Winnipeg. Her goal is to bring the first green cemetery to Manitoba, joining other provinces, like British Columbia, that already have them.
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