Anyone else rather not spend money for a casket at their funeral?
I'd rather be buried under a tree or with a tree sapling...
What are you going to do with yourself?
What are you going to do with yourself?
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there's a book by Mary Roach called 'Stiff' that goes into (as the subtitle calls it) 'the curious lives of cadavers'. there are some interesting alternative options being developed (or were; the book is many years old) to burial and cremation (cremation is often considered very unsound environmentally).
The two mehtods I remember best consisted of a bath of boiling caustic mix that left you as nothing more than a pile of bleached bones or a liquid nitrogen/ultrasonic reduction that turns a body into a smallish pile of compost that is then put into a container with a tree to be returned to people.
anyway, a good book to read, if you're interested in the range of things that can/have/may happen.
The two mehtods I remember best consisted of a bath of boiling caustic mix that left you as nothing more than a pile of bleached bones or a liquid nitrogen/ultrasonic reduction that turns a body into a smallish pile of compost that is then put into a container with a tree to be returned to people.
anyway, a good book to read, if you're interested in the range of things that can/have/may happen.
