In a little copse of oak, hazel and willow trees, on the edge of a ploughed field in Cambridgeshire, a door is opening into a new way of death for 21st-century Britain: a brand new stone-and-earth round barrow, a burial mound of a type perfected more than 5,000 years ago. It was the blue nylon carpet in an urban crematorium that convinced Toby Angel there had to be a better way of doing death. It’s become the norm, and it’s absolutely dreadful.”He describes the new burial mound as “a secular space full of faith”. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Toby Angel outside the burial moundDaw’s was a one-off, but Angel, Fildes, scientist Mark Davis and stonemason Geraint Davies have formed a new company, Sacred Stones, to develop the concept. Toby Angel thinks death should be taught in schools.

Source: The Guardian October 26, 2016 08:43 UTC