In Our Cemetery

Dear Mary Tuma,
    I recently found your article from 2018 on the Fetal Burial bill online [“Fetal Burial Trial Ends with Unanswered Questions,” News, July 20, 2018], which mentions our cemetery. My artist blacksmith husband, Nick, and I founded Our Lady of the Rosary Cemetery and Prayer Gardens in Georgetown 18 years ago with a unique vision. We wanted to find a new and natural way to approach Sister Death in a way that cares for Mother Earth, and honors the divine spark in all people of all faiths or no faith. In our cemetery, we have not only Catholic and Christian people laid to rest under a blanket of wildflowers, but Jewish, Ba'hai, Muslim, and Buddhist.
    We offered free burial for aborted fetuses as we already have quarterly burials of miscarried babies from a major hospital, and would have been honored to provide this reverential burial. It is not about being anti-choice, but seeing the sacred nature of everything living, in all of humanity, in creation.
    We are the first xeriscaped perpetual care cemetery in the US (to be featured on the Lady Bird Wildflower Center Tour of Gardens last spring before COVID) and the first in Texas to offer green burial. Our vision was to revive the Art of Memorialization and we have over 12 artists adding to the wondrous natural beauty, with waterfall, pond, legendary wildflowers, contemplative walks, and a place where people can grieve and heal, tend a grave garden, sit on a bench there.
    Please come take a look and see we are so much more than described in your article!