3 years ago
Amazing ways to make your death environment friendly
Many people are worried about earth and environment and are very desperate to contribute and bring sustainability. If you are one of them, you can bring change too not alive but after your death; sounds too bizarre though but you can really make a positive impact by making your final ritual environment friendly.
There’s a rise in discussion on green deaths where people are having conversations on death like never before. There are various methods for funerals like Cremation and Burial but both of these ways bring unnecessary burden to earth.
Cremation releases around 250kg of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere whereas burial method has taken over all the space leading land pollution.
As people are getting conscious about earth, green burials and natural funerals are increasing in demand. Few new companies are bringing up easy ways to facilitate the demand.
1.The mushroom suit burials
With the mushroom suit burial you can become plant food making your dead body an eco-friendly gift to nature. The Coeio Infinity Burial Suit is made up of organic cotton and mushroom spores hence a person buried within it gets covered in growing mushrooms soon. The suit was revealed in 2016 as the best replacement method for pollutant free burial.
2.The Capsulburial poda Mundis
The Capsula Mundi burial is a type of oval shaped pod where the body is kept in an egg-shaped, organic casket in the foetal position to provide nourishment for trees above them. The deceased’s body becomes food for the tree and the tree becomes memorial in place of a tombstone.
3. Becoming Earth after death
Washington State is first to allow human composting remains in the United States which has authorized to offer “natural organic reduction”. The method complies closed area encircled by wood chips, straw and other decomposing greenery bodies which will help decompose the body much quicker than in a traditional coffin.
The oxygenated environment helps bodies to decompose quickly making the soil nutrient-rich within a few weeks. The soil is often collected by the family, relatives for the memorial or given to the gardeners for using it as manure.
