Pre-planning allows you to make thoughtful decisions in a calm and unrushed way, rather than leaving those choices to loved ones during a time of grief. It ensures your wishes are clearly documented and gives your family confidence that they are honoring what you wanted.
Planning ahead also provides financial clarity. Pricing is secured in advance, which can reduce uncertainty for your survivors and simplify future arrangements. For some families, pre-planning may also serve as part of broader estate or long-term care planning, like “spending down” an estate to meet Medicaid eligibility before entering an assisted living or nursing home facility.
Most importantly, pre-planning gives you the opportunity to choose a burial place that reflects your values — whether that means conservation, habitat preservation, or creating a living memorial — and to experience that land during your lifetime.
At Life Forest, one of our goals is to protect the environment while providing a positive and healing space. By planning your burial within our conservation cemetery, you minimize environmental impact while supporting protected forest land.
Depending on the location, you may choose a Memorial Tree burial, a Woodland Trail burial, or other designated conservation burial areas. Where memorial trees are offered, your cremated or composted remains are interred with the planting of your chosen tree, allowing you to become part of a living memorial within a peaceful, vibrant forest.
According to the Arbor Day Foundation, “A mature leafy tree produces as much oxygen in a season as 10 people inhale in a year.”
With Life Forest, it is possible to use your passing as an opportunity to restore and preserve habitat. By choosing conservation burial, you contribute to protected forest land that changes with the passing of each season — supporting life, wildlife, and clean air for generations to come.
Your memorial becomes part of land that is intentionally preserved, not repurposed or developed, but cared for as living forest.
Lacey chose a pre-need burial plot at Life Forest so that she and Sky could enjoy the land together now — hiking, swimming, and bird watching, creating shared memories on the very ground that will one day hold her memorial.
By pre-planning, Lacey has already established a place of connection and familiarity, so that when the time comes, Life Forest will not feel like a place of loss alone, but a healing space her daughter already knows and loves.
You may wish to give back to the earth in a way that supports new growth and preserved forest land after your life has ended. Life Forest provides a peaceful location to complete the cycle of life within a serene forest setting.
We provide legal protection by deed-recording burial rights and issuing a Certificate of Interment Rights. Each burial location is documented using precise GPS mapping data. Beneficiary ownership of interment rights may also be established to ensure clarity and continuity.
We use technology to record mapping data and memorial information connected to Life Forest land. Where available, families may also choose to preserve digital legacy messages connected to their memorial location.
We are here to guide you through each step of our simple process.
