They are your funerals, make them free

Hosanna High Natural Burial Project

Creating $100 community-owned natural burial grounds nationwide.

Our mission is to make funerals affordable and eco-friendly for everyone by using community-owned natural burial grounds.

How: Reach the 70% of people who do not have a funeral plan and want to return to traditional ways of caring for the deceased. We want funerals to be accessible for all and kind to the planet. By using crowd-funded land, establishing a trust, offering free Last Will & Wishes, and organizing family-led services, home, church, or graveside vigils, families can cut costs, reduce pollution, and avoid the probate court.

“RIP is not an add-on package; it’s a God-given right.”

Join us to secure your family’s space in your state’s member-owned nonprofit, natural cemetery.

Project Summary

Our project helps communities assemble to crowd-purchase and steward green, natural, regenerating nonprofit private cemeteries that regular families can afford.

Goal: reteach our ancestors’ traditions of crowd-funded land, home/church/graveside services that families lead, eliminating costs. A one-time $100 membership funds land to allow families to afford respectful, earth-friendly burials again.

Project Impact

1 acre serves 3,500 people — 500 full burials and 2,000–5,000 cremated remains.

3,500 people with $100 raises $350,000

It saves 3,500 families $13,000,000 off traditional funerals and burials.

Saves 250 metric tons of CO2.

Saves approx. $10,000,000 in probate fees.

Project Need

Average cremation and service costs $6,200. Average direct cremation or burial plot is $2,000. Average funeral service with full body is $10,000. A green or traditional burial plot and fees average $5,000. A headstone costs about $3,000. A concrete vault $2,000. Probate court is $10,000.

Most Americans don’t even have $500 for an emergency nor $200 for an obituary. This leaves families facing funeral poverty — forced into debt, forced into cremation, crowdfunding, or indigent burial. Neither money nor the lack of it should dictate how we are laid to rest when it’s a God-given rite to RIP.

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit—your support is tax-deductible. EIN 92-1885562
We are awarded a $10,000/month Google Ad Grant to spread our mission nationwide.
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SHOW YOUR SUPPORT – What communities stand behind this vision?

Everyone is welcome.

Alaska – 1 signature Arkansas – 2 signatures Alabama – 7 signatures Arizona – 3 signatures California – 22 signatures Colorado – 5 signatures Connecticut – 3 signatures Delaware – 4 signatures Florida – 44 signatures Georgia – 6 signatures Hawaii – 1 signatures Iowa – 7 signatures Idaho – 2 signatures Illinois – 6 signatures Indiana – 3 signatures Kansas – 5 signatures Louisiana – 8 signatures Maine – 2 signatures Maryland – 15 signatures Michigan – 9 signatures Minnesota – 3 signatures Montana – 1 signatures North Carolina – 1005 signatures New Hampshire – 5 signatures New Jersey – 3 signatures Nevada – 2 signatures New York – 7 signatures Ohio – 7 signatures Oklahoma – 2 signatures Oregon – 2 signatures Pennsylvania – 4 signatures South Carolina – 2 signatures Tennessee – 5 signatures Texas – 5 signatures Virginia – 10 signatures Washington – 5 signatures Wisconsin – 10 signatures Let’s create affordable funerals! Over 1000 have signed Put your town on the map! Checkout our Youtube! Let’s create affordable funerals! Arkansas – 2 signatures Alaska – 1 signature Alabama – 7 signatures Arizona – 3 signatures California – 22 signatures Colorado – 5 signatures Connecticut – 3 signatures Delaware – 4 signatures Florida – 44 signatures Georgia – 6 signatures Hawaii – 1 signatures Iowa – 7 signatures Idaho – 2 signatures Illinois – 6 signatures Indiana – 3 signatures Kansas – 5 signatures Louisiana – 8 signatures Maine – 2 signatures Maryland – 15 signatures Michigan – 9 signatures Minnesota – 3 signatures Montana – 1 signatures North Carolina – 1005 signatures New Hampshire – 5 signatures New Jersey – 3 signatures Nevada – 2 signatures New York – 7 signatures Ohio – 7 signatures Oklahoma – 2 signatures Oregon – 2 signatures Pennsylvania – 4 signatures South Carolina – 2 signatures Tennessee – 5 signatures Texas – 5 signatures Virginia – 10 signatures Washington – 5 signatures Wisconsin – 10 signatures Over 1000 have signed Put your town on the map! Checkout our Youtube!

We do this for my grandparents John and Margaret Ellen Wallace where in 1950 tragically my grandfather died, while grandma was pregnant with their 13th child. The funeral home took the only thing she had of value, the family automobile, a 1947 Ford pickup.

It is the honor of my life to attempt what some deem impossible Grandma. I am here to “Make Funerals Free Again.”

Cheri Ellen Wallace, Founder/ Director

Meet our founder https://letsbetrees.org/our-founders-mission-to-end-funeral-poverty/