Elizabeth Fournier
Learn how to have a green burial and other sustainable dispositions from green burial expert, author and mortician Elizabeth Fournier
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Elizabeth Fournier began her career in 1990 in Portland, where she was employed as the live-in night keeper, sleeping in a trailer in a large cemetery. Thirty-five years later, she is a one-woman funeral service in the rural town of Boring, Oregon. Elizabeth owns and operates Cornerstone Funeral Services where she is affectionately known as "The Green Reaper" for her green burial advocacy. Elizabeth is the author of The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial, and she presented a TEDx talk called, "Going Green: The Last Act of Environmental Volunteerism." Elizabeth was part of the very first Natural Organic Reduction (human composting) in the United States. And People Magazine wrote, "Elizabeth Fournier is doing her part to change the way Americans bury their dead."