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Mission
Make Natural Burial Affordable for Every Family.
Most Americans can’t cover a $500 emergency, let alone a $14,000 funeral. Families drain their savings, go into debt, or are forced toward cremation or indigent burial.
The average funeral with a full body and burial is $14,000. A green burial plot averages $5,000, and burying cremated remains average at $2000.
How Do We Make Natural Burial Affordable for Every Family?
We want to reach the 70% of people who have no funeral plan and wish to return to simple, traditional ways of caring for the departed. We want to reach those who want funerals to be accessible for all while being kind to the planet.
By reviving our ancestors’ traditions of crowdfunding land and family-led services at the home, church, or graveside, families can cut their own costs and essentially make their funerals free.
Would you help dig a grave for a family member or friend?
Is this legal?
YES. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supported by members, donations, and grants. All support is tax-deductible. EIN 92-1880556.
As free Americans, we are free to form a cemetery on properly zoned land and dig our own graves.
Below is our nine-point petition to reclaim our death rights and make funerals affordable for every family.
- Free death certificates: No more charging widows $10 – $20 each—because if the county can’t afford copy paper, they don’t need to be in charge of death certificates. Sign this petition.
- $11,000 tax credit for having a green burial membership and completing a last will, trust, and directives, eliminating many cases of probate court.
- We propose a free national or international obituary database because we deserve to know what happened to our loved ones, and not everyone can afford the $200 obituary.
- We want reform in burial witnessing in nine states that require a professional funeral director witnessing every burial and complete the death certificate. These states can provide their own witness. Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, and New York
- Donated federal or state land for truly non-profit natural burial cemeteries. Sign this petition.
- Free private autopsies—we already pay for them with our taxes. Charging $500 for a state autopsy vs $5000 paid by citizens is profiteering on grief.
- Green funeral directors are forced to pay for embalming certificates they’ll never use, which is audacity dressed up as regulation. Sign this petition.
- Viking lives matter, and so do Native Americans, Indian, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikhs, Jains, Japanese, Ancient Greek, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Tibetan and Slavs. We petition for our legal right to sacred open-air fires and burials with proper land zoning, reclamation chimney, and discernment.
- Our right to rest in peace—every family deserves to lay their loved ones to rest, without going into debt. Make the “Free At Last” be FREE.
How to be involved and what am I signing? Pledge your support by signing this national petition. If you are in North Carolina, be sure you will be invited to crowdfund the Elgin Mansion. No money is due until land is available near you.
SIGN THIS NATIONAL PETITION TO FORM A NONPROFIT CEMETERY NEAR YOU AND RECLAIM YOUR DEATH RIGHTS.
If you want to form and help a non-profit cemetery in your area join us.
Project Impact
One acre serves 3,500 people—500 full-body burials and 2,000–5,000 cremated remains.
3,500 people with $100 will raise $350,000.
The average agricultural acre is $10,000.
The average acre cemetery survey is $2,000.
500 people (FBB) save $7,000,000 and 3,000 people with cremated remains save $6,000,000.
If members donated just $10 a year,it would be $35,000
One acre 3,500 families save $13,000,000 off traditional funerals and burials—cremation done elsewhere and costs not factored.
Project Summary
Imagine planning your own $100 funeral: your family drives you to the cemetery, your sisters wrap you in your nana’s old quilt, and your society members, friends, and neighbors bring shovels. That kind of farewell is priceless. Lack of money will no longer dictate how we are laid to rest.
We will stop polluting the earth with toxic chemicals that never break down. Instead of buying grave plots into eternity, a family can use the same land in cycles for eternity. A granddaughter may go where her grandmother was laid fifty years prior.
The Hosanna High Natural Burial Project does not charge for helping communities form natural burial cemeteries. It is our desire to help families help themselves with time-tested ancestral burial practices that can indeed make funerals free.
Why Us?
- We rely on member support, donations, and grants. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, all support is tax-deductible. EIN 92-1880556
- We receive a $10,000/month Google Ad Grant to spread our mission nationwide.
- With 13 VOLUNTEERS, Developforgood.org has helped us renew our website. Launching fall, 2026.
- We qualify for Federal Work-Study Grants for paid student interns.
- We accept Crypto and land gifts. Click the Blue ‘Donate’ Button at the Top of the Page!
- Want to be a “Saint” to your community? Donate Land or become a Founding Member, Ambassador, Advisor, or Board Member.
- Signing our petition and sharing our mission is free—and helps us grow.
RIP is a GOD-GIVEN RIGHT
If the $100 membership fee is not within your ability, please contact us—we have options. Rest in peace is a God-given right that no one shall be denied.
Become a Saint to your community
Please consider including us in your will or estate plan. For land gifts to communities, contact us with the form above.
In honor of Margaret Ellen Wallace, this work carries the widow’s cry.