Good Ground Great Beyond

Good Ground Great Beyond The aim of Good Ground Great Beyond is to be a sacred space in nature to bury and cremate our dead. It's also a resource promoting taking death to heart.

Good Ground Great Beyond intends is to be a space in mid-coast Maine to return, to remember, to contemplate... a sanctuary in which to feel, pray and practice. Acquiring a home for our future green cemetery and open air pyre and providing Maine communities with a resource for diverse disposition and death care information is the focus of our mission. Navigating the details of death planning can fe

el overwhelming, especially if we wait until the last opportunity. The GGGB website offers resources and support to help make approaching death normal, workable, enriching and a means to connect to our own hearts and each other.

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Brunswick, ME
04011

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Good Ground Great Beyond is grateful for all the support we have received and continue to receive with special thanks to the creative talents of Missy Chimovitz for the design of our stunning logo, Corey Kohn for her fabulous photography skills and supplying the bulk of the photos for our website and Deb Valenti for her website design abilities.

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Our Mission

Good Ground Great Beyond aspires to be a sacred, natural space in Midcoast Maine for the community to bury or cremate their deceased loved ones. Our mission is to gather minds and hearts together to support the vision of establishing green burial ground and eventually building an open air pyre. Current Maine law is such that any crematory built needs to be built on land used for 2 or more years as a burial ground. This tasks us with the good work of finding and raising funds for land, working legislatively to broaden the definition of crematory and to build a pyre that would be community run and maintained under the canopy of our nonprofit community organization.

It will be a space to engage the elements that play an essential part in the transformations of our people who have died. It will be a place to sit in nature, to listen deeply and settle in stillness. Good Ground Great Beyond is also a virtual reference and resource for community to connect and to contemplate the reality of change and death in our life. It is a prompt for us all to remember to look at ourselves, each other and our world in our interdependence, our beginnings and endings.

Many conventional death care and disposition options have grown to associate modernism and progress with distance. And in many arenas in our present modern world we are coming to discover distance-from is not necessarily the call of deeper wisdom; that as we grow culturally we find ourselves returning and coming closer to things we mistakenly assumed needed to be averted or hidden.

The genesis of Good Ground Great Beyond arose from years of experiences with people dying and grieving and seeing patterns in how people engaged or disengaged once death occurred. These observations inspired further motivation to continue to contribute to our cultural shifts around engaging death well. The vision of GGGB is to be a collaborative and physical space to connect, feel and reflect, grounded in the simple wish for us human beings to be able to know and manifest our fullness, mystery and humanity in all aspects of living and dying.