Forget Coffins: These Pods Will Turn You Into A Tree When You Die

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[Daffynition]

Forget coffins, these burial pods are the future.

Capsula Mundi is an eco-friendly alternative to being buried in a coffin.

[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...

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[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

[Daffynition]

You better specify that in your will. :)

[Daffynition]

It would change the way cemeteries are run and operated. Not sure how strong the lobby or unions are, in that regard....to see if this ever gains any traction here.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Trees use a lot of water.

[Daffynition]

ALgore is on his deathbed?

[null and void]

Bodies still get, um, planted.

I bet it won’t much affect union grave diggers.

[null and void]

Who can tell?

[Daffynition]

Being sealed in a cement box...so water doesn't get to you, seems grim.

Cremate and go to the wind.

[Daffynition]

HAHAHA!

[MeshugeMikey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k

[jy8z]

There's always Resomation.

[digger48]

and take up a lot of room.

And they eventually die.

[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.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

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