With life having made several attempts on my life over the last few years, I’m always fascinated by new ways that my disused husk can be disposed of responsibly. This is intriguing, though not enough to get me give up cremation / hydro cremation (or my dream of said husk being used as a prop for the wood chipper scene in a dinner theatre rendition of FARGO):
For those seeking to live in the most sustainable way, there now is an afterlife too.
A Dutch intrepid inventor is now “growing” coffins by putting mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms, together with hemp fiber in a special mold that, in a week, turns into what could basically be compared to the looks of an unpainted Egyptian sarcophagus.
And while traditional wooden coffins come from trees that can take decades to grow and years to break down in the soil, the mushroom versions biodegrades and delivers the remains to nature in barely a month and a half.