NBC NEWS - You would be amazed at many resources are used at funerals.

Every year, there are enough metals in caskets to build the Golden Gate Bridge, enough concrete in grave markers to pave a two-lane highway from Detroit to New York, and enough formaldehyde to fill eight Olympic-sized swimming pools.

That's why one New Mexico man is taking a very different approach to burying the dead.

"I think many conventional cemeteries feel odd and unnatural because death isn't intertwined with life as is the case with nature," says Joe Sehee of Conservation Burial Partners.

Walking through a planned burial ground, Sehee explains how his cemetery will be unlike any other.

He explains, "We're looking at here is at Galisteo Basin and the Sierr Palon and Ortiz mountains, this is the burial ground in front of us.  We are in what will be the ceremonial place.  The plan is to do burial enough to generate funds to acquire a thousand acres."

A very different view than most are used to.

We humans have always had the rituals to bury our dead, and Sehee says things like embalming and metal caskets only date back to the civil war.

"What we think is traditional has only been around for little more than a century," Sehee adds.

Sehee says the desert burials will be simple.

He explains, "No metal caskets, not formaldehyde based embalming, no concrete burial vaults."

That means dry ice and refrigeration for transport, biodegradable caskets, burial shrouds or cremation.

Sehee says, “In the spring when we begin buying bodies you will see some trails, but markers will be trees outcroppings and tree stumps, the idea is to bring as little on the land as possible.  It allows us to see that death is a part of life and the two are intertwined that there is always a sign of. “