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Mission
Make Natural Burial Affordable for Every Family.
Most Americans don’t have $500 for an emergency. Families are draining their savings, forced into debt, forced into cremation, or indigent burial. Industry average funeral service with full body and burial is $14,000. Industry green burial space averages $5,000, and to bury cremated remains average $2000.
HOW- Do We Make Natural Burial Affordable for Every Family?
Reach the 70% of people who don’t have a funeral plan and want to return to simple and traditional ways of caring for the departed. Those who want funerals to be accessible for all and kind to the planet. By resuming our ancestors’ traditions of crowd-funding land and family-led services at the home, church, or graveside, families can cut their own costs and essentially make their funerals free.
Who out there would help dig a grave for a family member or friend?
Is this legal and why?
YES. We are a member, donation, grant supported 501(c)(3) nonprofit — support is tax-deductible. EIN 92-1880556. We as free Americans are free to form a cemetery on properly zoned land. We are free to have it surveyed for a cemetery and we are free to dig our own graves and care for our own loved ones. There are legalities but surmountable.
Below is our nine-point petition to reclaim our death rights and make funerals affordable for every family.
- Free death certificates—because if the county can’t afford copy paper, they don’t need to be in charge of death certificates.
- $11,000 tax credit for having a green burial membership and completing a last will, trust, and directives, because of failures by the FDA, CDC, and World Health Organization.
- We propose a free national or international obituary database because we deserve to know what happened to our people, and everyone can’t afford the obituary.
- We want reform in burial witnessing in nine states that require a professional witness. Those 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 cemeteries, provided by the government.
- Free private autopsies—we already pay for them with our taxes. The charge of $500 state vs $5000 citizens seems like profiteering.
- Green funeral directors are forced to pay for embalming certificates they’ll never use, which is pure audacity dressed up as regulation. Sign this petition.
- Viking lives matter, and so do Hindu, Tibetan, Zoroastrian traditions, and we demand our legal right to sacred open-air fires and sky burials with proper land zoning, reclamation, and careful discernment.
- Our right to rest in peace—every family deserves to lay their loved ones to rest on their own terms, without going into debt.
How to be involved and what am I signing? Signing is free. You’ll get email progress reports. When 500 people in your area sign, the search for land begins. When land is ready, you can join for a one-time $100. This is a membership cemetery society, not a land investment.
SIGN THIS NATIONAL PETITION TO FORM A NONPROFIT CEMETERY NEAR YOU.
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 raises $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 is $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
Planning your hundred-dollar funeral—arranging for your family to drive, your sisters wrapping you in your nana’s old quilt, your society members, friends, and neighbors bringing a shovel to the cemetery society you joined, and a potluck dinner in peace—is priceless. The lack of money will no longer dictate how we are laid to rest.
We will no longer pollute the earth with toxic, forever-locking chemicals and substances. This allows regenerating graves, so a granddaughter may go where her grandmother was laid fifty years earlier. Instead of buying grave plots into eternity, a family can use the same land in cycles for eternity—eliminating the need for more cemetery land.
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 are a member, donation, grant supported 501(c)(3) nonprofit support is tax-deductible. EIN 92-1880556
- We are awarded a $10,000/month Google Ad Grant to spread our mission nationwide.
- We are awarded Developforgood.org 13 VOLUNTEER website revival, launching fall 2026.
- Want to be a “Saint” to your community? Donate Land? Become a Founding Member, Ambassador, Advisor, or Board Member.
- We qualify for Federal Work Study Grant for paid student interns.
- Signing and sharing our mission is free—and helps it grow.
- We accept Crypto–and land gifts. Click the Blue Button at the Top of the Page!
RIP is a GOD GIVEN RITE
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. We accept cryptocurrency or cash on the blue button top of page. Land gifts to communities contact us with the form above.
In honor of Margaret Ellen Wallace, this work carries the widow’s cry.