Colorado Families Share Process Of How New Legal ‘Green Funerals' Work

By Shawn Chitnis, CBS Denver:

LAFAYETTE, Colo. (CBS4) – Less than a month after Colorado became the second state to legalize body composting as a funeral service, interest continues to grow in alternative options for families looking to leave their loved ones at peace with the earth in an environmentally conscious method.

“It just felt really right for me and for my son Graham,” said Michele Bourgeois, the mother of Graham Hebert. Her son died at the beginning of the year. “He transitioned in water, he loved water, it felt very gentle to me.”

He fell through Blue Heron Lake on New Year’s Day. Family and friends as well as a search and rescue team with dogs spent 38 days before finding his body. The sudden loss of her son did not prepare her for the decision she had to make for his funeral. She did not feel like a traditional burial was right, the thought of her son in a box inside of another box did not sit well with her.

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