‘Green’ cemetery would help departed get back to nature

Marcus Yam/myam@ajc.com

Jim Bell wants to preserve the 17-acre pasture of his old horse farm by making it into a green cemetery in Alpharetta. People would be buried in shrouds or bio-degradable caskets, no embalming, nor concrete liners. Instead of headstones the alternative would be flat field stones and plots that are marked by gps.