Four Ways to Make Your Death Eco-Friendly

Posted on: Feb 22, 2021 Publish By: funerallink

Death planning is one of the last things a person can think about. After all, with the many exciting and interesting places and memories to experience, dying is on the end of a life agenda. However, with death’s inevitability and uncertainty, one can always prepare for when the worst comes.

The good thing about planning for one’s death is that many providers are willing to help a person organize every bit of detail. Furthermore, many people are leaning towards sustainability and eco-friendliness as green deaths become a topic of discussion these past few years.

If you want to try greener methods, here are few you need to learn.

Becoming Plant Food

Introduced in 2011, the Coeio Infinity Burial Suit covers the human remains with organic cotton and lines it with specialist mushroom spores so when the remains are brought down to earth, it literally becomes a gift to the soil.

The mushrooms will feed on the remains, break down its organic material, and remove the toxins from the environment. As the plants use the toxic remnants from the decomposed body, it will flourish its growth.

Transform Yourself into a Floral Reef

If you are fond of the sea activity and the ecosystem below the waters, you may want to be one with the fish for all of your eternity. But how is this possible? Your cremated remains will be mixed with concrete to create a “pearl.” After creating this “pearl,” you are lowered on the ocean floor so the “pearl” becomes a new habitat for marine life.

Because natural coral reefs have been destroyed by bombs and overfishing, creating a pearl is a new way to at least recover the damage that has been done by mankind. This method was introduced by Eternal Reefs as they continue to devote themselves in providing a nurturing habitat for marine life and ecosystems through the creation of “pearls.”

Mixed and One with the Earth

In the United States, the state of Washington has become the first place where composting of human remains has been legally allowed. With the use of an enclosed machine, human remains are mixed in with wood chips, greens, straws and soil as it becomes compost.

What’s more, it was determined that carbon emissions from this process is significantly reduced by 80%. The compost is given to surviving families or is donated to conservation groups.

Reborn as a Tree

Popularized as the Capsula Mundi, this world’s capsule is an egg-shaped and organic casket for a body positioned in a fetal likeness and is buried to the ground. As the casing breaks down, the organic remains of the body becomes nutrients to the tree sapling above it.

As the organic matter nourishes the sapling, it will fertile the soil and help grow it into a tree that will purify the air we breathe. Founders, Raoul Bretzel and Anna Citelli hopes that one day, cemeteries can be a place of trees rather than headstones.

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