Recycle Yourself Back to Nature
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Green burial honors loved ones in environmentally sustainable ways while also aiding the preservation of natural surroundings. With Destination Destiny Memorials, an entity of Steelmantown Cemetery Company, one can do so either on land or at sea. |
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Green Burial on Land: Natural Burials
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Green Burial at Sea: Reef Balls
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Celebrate life with natural burial, an unimpeded, organic return to Earth with: - No Embalming Fluid - No Concrete Vaults - No Upright Monuments Polished or Set in Concrete - Biodegradable Burial Shrouds and Containers - Natural Stone Markers - Hand Dug Graves - Family Participation - Preservation and enhancement of natural habitats. Learn More by Visiting the 'Natural Cemeteries' tab. |
Memorialize loved ones undersea while also restoring the world's oceans with reef balls. - A reef ball is a structure made of pH balanced concrete that mimics the function of a natural reef. - Reef balls promote regrowth and revival of marine life, helping to restore ailing coral reefs. - These structures can hold cremains, allowing one to rest underwater for eternity in an eco-friendly fashion. - Enjoy a celebration of life reef ball deployment service off the coast of Ocean City, New Jersey. Learn More by Visiting the 'Water Options' tab. |
Make An Impact With Green Burial
When you choose to celebrate life with green burial, you are helping pave the way for environmental recovery through deathcare. By sharing your experience you can help set the world on a path toward a greener tomorrow. Steelmantown Cemetery Company is excited to offer you the opportunity to do so by collaborating with the Living and Dying on Earth Documentary, an up-and-coming film seeking to document an individual's/family's end-of-life journey.
Our Story
A journey that is changing the funeral industry culturally and spiritually...
In 2007 our Founder, Ed Bixby, transformed his life forever by walking down an unpredictable path assuming ownership of the Steelmantown Cemetery and entering into a profession unknown to him.
His role resulted out of care and sustainability to his ancestor’s family cemetery that had fallen into disrepair. Ed’s life and being chose a path for him long before he knew of its existence.
This new endeavor led him to a passion to help heal family pain for others and unlock a vision of something new but very old. In the fabric of all individuals' DNA lies the innate instinctual ability to care for ones loved one in death as they were cared for in life.
Ed understood this common thread shared among us. Through his thoughtful, careful design and compassionate teachings, he has been able to allow this ability to be shared through Steelmantown’s unique offerings.
In 2017, Ed began his mission of creating special spaces like Steelmantown across the United States. In doing so, he created Destination Destiny, his company that manages Steelmantown Cemetery Company's properties. Ed now owns eight natural burial preserves, a number that will continue to grow as he brings new life to many more neglected burial grounds with natural burial.
Ed invites all to embrace life in death surrounded by nature and the living with his eco-friendly funeral options. Explore his offerings by browsing our 'Natural Cemeteries' and 'Water Options' tabs.
A message from Steelmantown Cemetery Company's founder, Ed Bixby....
The Steelmantown Cemetery Company and Destination Destiny will help lead the way for others to learn of the final gift one may leave by choosing environmental and spiritual stewardship as the final act of ones life and how they chose to live that life.
Among our eco offerings are natural burial, tree of life celebrations and memorial reefs. These offerings help create a carbon offset by nurturing the living while helping ease the burden of the carbon footprint one leaves of the life that they lived.
The world we live in is ours and yours to protect and sustain. Eco funeral offerings offer new hope for a better tomorrow that is never promised but always dawns.
Destination Destiny and Steelmantown Cemetery Company properties strive to bring eco-friendly funeral options throughout the world. Changing the world culturally one space at a time, giving a final disposition option that truly defines the life that was lived.
Our business motto is, and always will be, “Today, tomorrow and forever.. change is a powerful tool to be shared with others... life is precious, live everyday as it’s your last... treat the world we live in with care, as it belongs to all."
Destination Destiny and Steelmantown Cemetery Company properties are here to educate and steward.
Sincerely,
Ed Bixby
In 2007 our Founder, Ed Bixby, transformed his life forever by walking down an unpredictable path assuming ownership of the Steelmantown Cemetery and entering into a profession unknown to him.
His role resulted out of care and sustainability to his ancestor’s family cemetery that had fallen into disrepair. Ed’s life and being chose a path for him long before he knew of its existence.
This new endeavor led him to a passion to help heal family pain for others and unlock a vision of something new but very old. In the fabric of all individuals' DNA lies the innate instinctual ability to care for ones loved one in death as they were cared for in life.
Ed understood this common thread shared among us. Through his thoughtful, careful design and compassionate teachings, he has been able to allow this ability to be shared through Steelmantown’s unique offerings.
In 2017, Ed began his mission of creating special spaces like Steelmantown across the United States. In doing so, he created Destination Destiny, his company that manages Steelmantown Cemetery Company's properties. Ed now owns eight natural burial preserves, a number that will continue to grow as he brings new life to many more neglected burial grounds with natural burial.
Ed invites all to embrace life in death surrounded by nature and the living with his eco-friendly funeral options. Explore his offerings by browsing our 'Natural Cemeteries' and 'Water Options' tabs.
A message from Steelmantown Cemetery Company's founder, Ed Bixby....
The Steelmantown Cemetery Company and Destination Destiny will help lead the way for others to learn of the final gift one may leave by choosing environmental and spiritual stewardship as the final act of ones life and how they chose to live that life.
Among our eco offerings are natural burial, tree of life celebrations and memorial reefs. These offerings help create a carbon offset by nurturing the living while helping ease the burden of the carbon footprint one leaves of the life that they lived.
The world we live in is ours and yours to protect and sustain. Eco funeral offerings offer new hope for a better tomorrow that is never promised but always dawns.
Destination Destiny and Steelmantown Cemetery Company properties strive to bring eco-friendly funeral options throughout the world. Changing the world culturally one space at a time, giving a final disposition option that truly defines the life that was lived.
Our business motto is, and always will be, “Today, tomorrow and forever.. change is a powerful tool to be shared with others... life is precious, live everyday as it’s your last... treat the world we live in with care, as it belongs to all."
Destination Destiny and Steelmantown Cemetery Company properties are here to educate and steward.
Sincerely,
Ed Bixby
