"Say Goodbye To Coffins" These Organic Burial Pods Will turn Your Body Into A Tree After you Die.

According to CNN, an organic burial pod is a biodegradable burial pod that a dead body goes inside of; the pod then works with nature to turn the decaying body into a tree.

Imagine that when you died you didn’t get buried in a coffin six feet under the ground. Instead, you opted for natural burial and your body serves to nourish the soil around you. And in that very same spot, a young tree is planted and begins to flourish and grow.

A future like that isn’t too far off. Two Italian designers launched a project called Capsula Mundi or “burial pods” which seeks to change the way you think about and interact with the concept of death.

Here’s how it works: The biodegradable plastic shell is buried with a body or ashes inside of it. Once buried, it breaks down; the remains inside give the surrounding soil nutrients, and a sapling planted above the body begins to take root.


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"Say Goodbye To Coffins" These Organic Burial Pods Will turn Your Body Into A Tree After you Die
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According to CNN, an organic burial pod is a biodegradable burial pod that a dead body goes inside of; the pod then works with nature to turn the decaying body into a tree.


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Imagine that when you died you didn’t get buried in a coffin six feet under the ground. Instead, you opted for natural burial and your body serves to nourish the soil around you. And in that very same spot, a young tree is planted and begins to flourish and grow.


A future like that isn’t too far off. Two Italian designers launched a project called Capsula Mundi or “burial pods” which seeks to change the way you think about and interact with the concept of death.

Here’s how it works: The biodegradable plastic shell is buried with a body or ashes inside of it. Once buried, it breaks down; the remains inside give the surrounding soil nutrients, and a sapling planted above the body begins to take root.





Capsula Mundi is a cultural and broad-based project, which envisions a different approach to the way we think about death. It's an egg-shaped pod, an ancient and perfect form, made of biodegradable material, where our departed loved ones are placed for burial. Ashes will be held in small egg-shaped biodegradable urns while bodies will be laid down in a fetal position in larger pods.

The Capsula will then be buried as a seed in the earth. A tree, chosen in life by the deceased, will be planted on top of it and serve as a memorial for the departed and as a legacy for posterity and the future of our planet. Family and friends will continue to care for the tree as it grows. Cemeteries will acquire a new look and, instead of the cold grey landscape we see today, they will grow into vibrant woodlands.

This doesn't mean that it will be easy to revise how we honour the dead, however.

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Here are few comments about people's perception on this latest development.

Tree bawo.... And will later be used as fire wood abi? I no want

[img]According to CNN, an organic burial pod is a biodegradable burial pod that a dead body goes inside of; the pod then works with nature to turn the decaying body into a tree.[/quote]

So that we can now be seeing our parents and ancestors as trees abi?

Buhari come see something oh

9niceguy:

Tree bawo.... And will later be used as fire wood abi? I no want

more like still ending in cremation

I like this method, at least ritualist and skull miners will be unable to mine people's part

Probably the origin of funny looking trees

Kingjay007:
Probably the origin of funny looking trees

And produce fruits with angry human face.



What if the tree dies? Does this mean the dead had died a second time?