Lee Webster

Lee Webster is Funeral Reform Advocate who is an expert on palliative care, home funerals and green burials. Green burialsare a simple and non-toxic way to put human bodies directly into the earth--which also turns out to be community focused, earth-friendly, and sequesters carbon, as well. Embalming fluids and cremation expose industry workers to concerning toxics such as formaldehyde, methanol, and mercury. And that doesn't account for the social and environmental justice concerns for cemetery lawn maintenance workers routinely exposed to pesticides and herbicides. Beyond being the Director of New Hampshire Funeral Resources, Education and Advocacy, on the board of the Conservation Burial Alliance and a co-founder of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance, Lee is also part of a group of artists who locally hand-craft items used in green burials called the Funerary Artisans Collective. ​​Lee Webster is the author of The After-Death Care Educator Handboo, which has recently been reprinted.