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People who choose Prairie Sky Cemetery as their final resting place will be in the company of a small and select group.

The tiny graveyard’s dozen plots are reserved exclusively for those who want a ‘green’ burial.

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No embalming. No opulent casket. No upright headstone. Just simple interment — shroud, clothing or plain cardboard coffin optional.

That’s what Lynn Oliphant wants for himself. A retired veterinary professor and former Green Party candidate, Oliphant feels so strongly about it, he set up the private cemetery on his own property.

As a person who has been trying to lead an environmentally-sustainable life, “to go out by being embalmed with chemicals and stuck in a high-priced, hardwood casket and stuck in the ground just struck me as ludicrous,” he said.

He calls formaldehyde, a chemical used to preserve bodies in the embalming process, a poison.

All other living creatures are “sustained by circulating their body parts back into the living world, and so I’d like my body to circulate back as quickly as possible in the most natural way,” he said.