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Burial pod turns your body into a tree
Posted on 5/30/17 at 7:34 am
Posted on 5/30/17 at 7:34 am
This may be a new trend. Eliminate the need for cemeteries and compost yourself back into the ground.
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Italian designers Raoul Bretzel and Anna Citelli might have a solution. They call it Capsula Mundi -- "world's capsule" in Latin -- and it's an egg-shaped, organic casket that's suitable for ashes, too.
Once buried, they say, the biodegradable plastic shell breaks down and the remains provide nutrients to a sapling planted right above it.
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Posted on 5/30/17 at 7:42 am to genuineLSUtiger
eternal wood? hmmmm..
Posted on 5/30/17 at 7:45 am to genuineLSUtiger
Little too hippie'ish for me.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 7:46 am to genuineLSUtiger
Isn't this kinda the plot to that movie How High with method/Redman?
Posted on 5/30/17 at 7:56 am to genuineLSUtiger
I mean of all the weird hippy ideas out there this one actually makes some sense.
Eventually we are going to run out of space to put dead people, turning them into a tree solves 2 problems in 1
Eventually we are going to run out of space to put dead people, turning them into a tree solves 2 problems in 1
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:04 am to genuineLSUtiger
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cemeteries
PITA to maintain. A large cemetery can easily have a full time crew of 3-4 people just keeping the grass mowed.
Old people are really attached the the whole open casket, family tombstone burial plot with perpetual maintenance.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:09 am to Tiger1242
quote:Generally speaking, I'd say most trees take up more room than a single burial plot. (I'm talking circumference of the entire tree branches and all, not just the trunk of course).
Eventually we are going to run out of space to put dead people, turning them into a tree solves 2 problems in 1
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:09 am to genuineLSUtiger
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the remains provide nutrients to a sapling planted right above it.
My body is not tree food. Pass.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:10 am to genuineLSUtiger
Louisiana funeral directors will never allow this to happen here. They have the legislature in their pocket. They sued St Joseph's Abbey to keep them from making caskets, because it was cutting into their profits. The brothers still make them, but now they cost as much or more than a funeral home casket.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:14 am to genuineLSUtiger
I'm going to be made into Fun Dip and served at my funeral. Then I'm going to play a video after the service informing everyone that they ate me. Even in death I will get the final laugh.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:19 am to genuineLSUtiger
The guy at Rest Haven says you can't get into heaven unless you're embalmed.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:20 am to genuineLSUtiger
I'd hate to leaf my loved ones.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:25 am to genuineLSUtiger
Is this where Groot came from?
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:34 am to S
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I'd hate to leaf my loved ones.
Sure, but this is environmentally conscious and does some good. Could see this idea taking root.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:35 am to Pettifogger
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Sure, but this is environmentally conscious and does some good. Could see this idea taking root.
Are we really going to do this? Can't we branch out a little bit from this line of humor?
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:38 am to SidewalkDawg
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I'm going to be made into Fun Dip
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Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:40 am to genuineLSUtiger
This is badass.
But you don't need to buy this fancy thing to do it. Just bury the body in some untreated wood, covered in fertilized soil in the casket, and plant a tree above it.
Also, I wonder what the effect embalming fluid would have on a tree's roots? That can't be conducive to growth.
But you don't need to buy this fancy thing to do it. Just bury the body in some untreated wood, covered in fertilized soil in the casket, and plant a tree above it.
Also, I wonder what the effect embalming fluid would have on a tree's roots? That can't be conducive to growth.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:42 am to genuineLSUtiger
I'm not gonna let my family cheapskate me in my death.
My funeral better be at least $20k.
My funeral better be at least $20k.
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:43 am to genuineLSUtiger
Posted on 5/30/17 at 8:43 am to PhilipMarlowe
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That's the stuff.
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