Italian designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel recently introduced a new burial technique with the potential to change the world. They call it the Capsula Mundi project, and it's a shockingly simple concept.
Rather than burying dead bodies in wooden boxes in the ground, bodies are placed in a biodegradable sack like the ones below.
The sack is then buried in the ground, with a tree planted above.
The premise is that as the tree grows, it will use the nutrients produced by the human body as it decomposes.
The designers wish for cemeteries to eventually look more like forests.
Man do I like this idea!
I have never been a fan of funerals, but having a ceremony to plant a tree, now THAT sounds like a celebratory event.
My daughter and I recently discussed this idea and she is all for it. She says she would be much more likely to come and water me if I was a tree, rather than sit and grieve for me if all she could see was a headstone.
And the idea of providing oxygen to the earth after my passing makes me pretty happy as well.
This also falls in line with what Neil deGrasse Tyson has said he would like for his remains to be used for after he breaths his last.
