Texans are breaking tradition with alternative burial methods like green burials, human composting, and tree pod burials, focusing on eco-friendly and personalized options for end-of-life arrangements.
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in which the body is placed in a fetal position and buried under the ground. A tree (or tree seed) is then planted over the top of the pod, which will use the nutrients from the decomposing body as fertilizer for
let alone the subject of burial, a new trend is becoming more and more popular –“green burial“. With funeral directors, embalming, caskets, cemetery plots, vaults, headstones, flowers and a multitude of Western ideas of burial coming into place, in the U.S. alone, it has become an 11...
Capsula mundi is an organic burial pod made of natural starch plastic in which body of deceased is placed in foetal position that nurture tree seeds as the body break downs. The natural decomposition process feeds the tree above, and over time, burial spaces can be transformed from bleak ...
In addition, the caskets and headstones are often placed in cemeteries or churchyards “in perpetuity” and require ongoing maintenance, sometimes 'forever'. By contrast, in a natural burial ground, meadow grass is not mowed and the headstone is a tree—a lazy landscaper’s dream if there ...
Been supporting a friend with cancer over the last few months.. too late to do much for him by the time it was found. I've been around several family and friends who have died and all have talked about what they wanted in terms of treatment and funeral. This friend has been less cle...
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The urn is meant to interact with its surroundings by dissolving into it, and eventually producing a living monument, in the form of a tree, or a plant, in memory of the deceased person whose ashes it contains.doi:US6516501 B2José Fernando Vázquez-Pérez...
Meet the Bios Incube, the world’s first Internet of Things burial urn, because there really is something for everybody in 2017. In all seriousness, it’s quite a clever idea. The Bios Incube is a tree incubator specifically designed to work with ashes. After a successful Kickstarter ...