You may be willing to live a green lifestyle – but are you willing to die green?

There’s a new “green” trend on the rise – environmentally friendly funerals. 

Some cemeteries are encouraging families to skip the embalming and elaborate caskets and do it the old fashioned way. Paul Williams, president of the Historic Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC, says green burial options are popular with pre-planning baby boomers and other socially and environmentally conscious individuals.

Green burials don’t allow for embalming or the use of any concrete vault. You’ll need an eco-friendly container such as wicker casket or plain wooden box without hardware. Flowers are still acceptable. If you’d like to save a green spot at Congressional Cemetery, they still have 2,000 available plots. Mr. Williams says you don’t have to be a lawmaker or Supreme Court justice, like many there; you only need to be dead.