[Daffynition]

Interesting.

I couldn't find the cost of a capsula anywhere.

[huldah1776]

as long as it isn’t a fruit or nut tree.

[null and void]

Algore’s most of the way there now...

[null and void]

[jazusamo]

Trees

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

[Berlin_Freeper]

Trees use a lot of water.

[struwwelpeter]

Last Friday I was down at New Melleray Abbey, near Peosta, Iowa. There the monks make and sell simple wood caskets. They even gave me a personal one-man tour of their workshop. I was doing well during this, despite it going against my "I'm going to beat cancer" fantasy.

That is, until I got to the area where they made child and infant coffins.

There I lost it.

A lay worker who called herself "Connie Mander the Casket Sander" came over and gave me a hug. A few years ago she had the terrible privilege of helping to make her own son's casket.

I like trees, and selected a plot in our local cemetery under a tree, so I'll be doing my part I guess. But if a plain wooden box is good enough for Connie, it's good enough for me.

[1_Rain_Drop]

How does a person get into a fetal position after rigor mortis sets in?
Funeral directors would have more work playing with a dead body.
Does he curl the body for the wake or after?

Bodies would be buried every fifteen to thirty feet instead of side by side.

[edpc]

The definitive answer to the question, “If you were a tree, what kind would you be?”

[bramps]

Didn’t work out well in Oz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx-C2iVt2aE

[Grampa Dave]

My Granddad was a master carpenter, and walnut trees were his favorite live tree and walnut wood was his favorite wood to use his skills with.

He used to joke about buying a section of land for burial for he and his family and their families with their favorite tree planted over them.

Only a few of us thought that he was wrong.

Of course he wanted walnut tree planted over him. The only problem was his wife wanted a pecan tree over her grave site. So they would be buried apart, not how they spent their adult lives.

They loved children and family. They joked talked about
having a park with playgrounds, lakes/ a ballfield, streams in the area, and picnics areas (they loved family picnics.

Unfortunately, he died before before he got to start/implement his plan.

[ctdonath2]

Somebody has been reading the “Ender” series perhaps? Inspired by the Pequeninos of Lusitania?

[clearcarbon]

Trees are evil!

[BitWielder1]

Then cut down the tree and make a coffin.