Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost (2016)

Re:Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost... by mcv on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @08:52AM (#19848879)

I never saw cremation as environmentally friendly. I won't to feed worms and trees when I die, not turn to CO2 and heat up the atmosphere.

My plan for years now has been to get buried in a wicker coffin in a forest. Not an enclosed coffin, no embalming, no neat graveyard, just as natural as possible underground with a tree on top.

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Re:Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost... by DanBC on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @08:53AM (#19848894)

> I won't to feed worms and trees when I die, not turn to CO2 and heat up the atmosphere.

If you're buried won't you turn into methane and then CO2 anyway?

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Re:Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost... by mcv on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @10:11AM (#19849488)

I don't know that much about decay processes, I'm afraid. I'm kinda hoping to turn to worm food, whatever that is.

Still, animals die and decay in the wild, they don't get cremated in the wild[0]. That suggests to me it's the more natural and sustainable way to end.

[0] Except in forest fires, I suppose.

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