A new concept is making its way to Middle Tennessee called green burials. They're not dark. They're not scary. But they are eco-friendly - and high-tech. Now, a Nashville non-profit is bringing this concept to life.
Forty-five miles northeast of Nashville sits a quiet piece of property.
"We are located in Sumner County, on 112 acres," said John Chriastian Phifer.
Phifer is the Executive Director of Larkspur Conservation and has worked as a funeral director in Tennessee for about 15 years. Now he wants to conserve this land and turn it into the state's first green burial ground - what he calls a "living memorial."
"We don't use any chemicals. We don't use any plastic or concrete. We don't put those things in the earth, especially in a nature preserve like we're creating, so that it doesn't hamper the eco-system," he said.
So if there aren't any tombstones, how will people locate individual burial sites? That's where the old meets the new.
Larkspur Conservation will be using walk-to-site technology and it'll connect to your smartphone so you'll use GPS to locate a specific plot.
Developers are hoping have the site up and running by Spring of 2018.
