Joshua Tree Memorial Park was not created to be a natural cemetery. They have done what many cemeteries (of sense) are doing, and dedicated a section of their land to offer natural burials. The distance to Joshua Tree is often prohibitive for a Los Angeles family. We Angelenos would prefer to keep our dead closer to home, but where? Forest Lawn Memorial Park, one of L.A.’s celebrity burial spots, insists on heavy vaults surrounding the caskets, and doesn’t offer natural burial. They do make exceptions for Jews and Muslims, both religions that require the natural burial of bodies. In these
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