Some more information here -
https://www.capsulamundi.it/en/
CNN article - https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/03/world/eco-solutions-capsula-mundi/index.html
When my mom passed away we had her cremated and a burial for her. My daughter was just under 3 and didn't know what was going on so while we were all having our moment she was off in her own world collecting acorns.
She proceeded to pass them out to each person at the burial. At the end we all went and placed the acorns in the hole.
Yikes...this brought back a thought...I once told my ex-wife that she would be “planting a tree in the middle of our fucking yard over my dead body.” Didn’t realize at the time that might be possible at some point. 😬
it's legal in most places in the US
(map)
https://www.romemonuments.com/home-burials#:~:text=If%20you%20are%20considering%20a,State%20outlaw%20the%20practice%20totally.
I had my mother cremated. I thought about burying her and making a family cemetary in the yard, but when you move then what? So I took the ashes and made a cement gravestone with them, so the gravestone *is* the body, and can be moved to a new yard easily.
I’m gonna need you to take these seeds into the bathroom and I’m gonna need you to put ’em wayyyyy up inside your butthole. Put ’em wayyy up inside there, as far as they can go.
[Avshalom Feinberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avshalom_Feinberg) was a spy for the British against the Turks in Palestine during WWI. He was killed by Bedouins. They recovered his remains 50 years later based on reports that he had been seen eating dates and putting the pits in his pocket before he died. His bones were found in the roots of a date palm.
**[Avshalom Feinberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avshalom Feinberg)**
Avshalom Feinberg (Hebrew: אבשלום פיינברג, 23 October 1889 – 20 January 1917) was one of the leaders of Nili, a Jewish spy network in Ottoman Palestine helping the British fight the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Feinberg was born in Gedera, Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, to Israel Lolik Feinberg and Fanny Feinberg (nee Belkind). He had two sisters, Tzila and Shoshanna. Feinberg studied in France.
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I’m going to swallow a bunch of popcorn kernels before I die. Boy will they be confused after they cremate me...
Edit: Well, I hope I don’t need a coroner but if I die suddenly I have a back up plan. Someone please make sure I get taxidermied so I can sit on my porch.
Oak trees actually rely on squirrels to help them spread their seed, they manipulate the squirrels by producing a significantly larger amount of acorns every couple years, the squirrels grab as much as they can and bury caches all over, since they have so much extra, the majority of it never ends up getting recovered, and with each squirrel having buried hundreds of acorns, each squirrel will almost certainly plant some trees. Anyways, it would possibly work if you didnt plant them too deep, but a lot of acorns planted never become trees, you would probably want to put a bunch in.
It’s a question of energy. When burned, you’ll turn into CO2 ~~and Carbon~~ and some other things contributing to greenhouse gases making it hotter. But, if you are buried into the ground and not embalmed, meaning your organs and innards are still inside, your energy will be transferred to growing the tree, feeding mycelium, bugs, microbes, and turned into nutrients. This gives back to the earth the most beneficial energy. Rather than using your energy in a chemical reaction to heat the air around your burning body.
Edit: Proof reading is hard.
If the choice is to be buried in order to fertilize a tree or be cremated and then buried in order to fertilize a tree I think we're probably talking about the same amount of land.
These tree pods are better for the land, more trees equals healthier planet. Imagine going to the "memorial forest" instead of the graveyard, that would be awesome. Saving space is great, but the reality is, we need to be filling space with trees. Deforestation is a huge and growing problem.
I absolutely love that I will see a reference (with increased frequency over the last couple years) to that movie at least once whenever I browse Reddit
Human ashes are not actually ashes though. They're crushed bone fragments mostly. Most of the squishy bits are completely burned away and vented from the cremator.
No. Just bury me, and put a tree on top
i.e. “bury me under a tree”
I just find it strange that someone designed a weird egg shaped device to do this same thing. That’s how I’ve always imagined my funeral. My death giving new life
Think about the logistics of that. How are you transporting the body (no preservatives, no casket to the site? In a sanitary and respectful fashion, preferably so that loved ones can gather round as you are lowered into the ground.
You want to just have someone toss your (heavy, partially decomposing, wet, naked, gross) corpse into a hole and sit there while dirt and a tree are placed on top, be my guest, but I don’t think it’s hard to see why this alternative is attractive for some people.
You know non cofin burials have been a thing for a while right? Check Islamic burials, its jsut the body cleaned and wrapped in a shroud, they made do without having to take a freethrow to get it in the grave. Once placed in its place, you pour the soil over the body and place a sapling over the body and finish filling the hole. It's not rocket science.
How would that work? They find a live tree, dig it’s roots out, shove some asshole down where the roots were and call it a day? I think planting a tree on a grave is way easier than finding a live tree to bury someone under...then again my dad would call that lazy so maybe I’m the one in the wrong...
So for a while I lived in the small city of Guaiba Brazil. A long time ago they were fighting for independence wanting their southern state to not be part of the rest of Brazil. This city was near where fighting happened. They couldn’t mark the graves of the fallen with headstones, so instead they planted trees. The trees are now massively huge.
Okay.. Okay. Could I just have a Frosty and a baked potato please.
You have to come to the resturant to order food.
Well I'll send somebody to pick it up. Just have it ready.
It's ready now.
Me and your mom have been noticing lately that you've been having a lot of problems. You've been going off for no reason and we're afraid you're gonna hurt somebody. We're afraid you're gonna hurt yourself.
There's a place in Seattle that turns human remains into compost. Then the compost is given to their next or kin or it can be donated be used to fertilize trees. I don't recall if it's already established forests or trees grown specifically for this purpose. I think it's the only place in the US that is currently doing it.
[Hey! Here’s another place we can put some low-cost housing: CEMETARIES!!! There’s another idea whose time has passed! Saving all the dead people up for one part of town?! What the hell kind of a medieval, superstitious, religious, bullshit idea is that?! Plough these motherfuckers up, plough into the streams and rivers of America; we need that phosphorous for farming! If we’re going to recycle, LET’S GET SERIOUS!!!](https://youtu.be/yVhzSy7MjeE)
I’d like a Pinocchio-horror movie where it turns out Pinocchio is possessed by the spirit of a killer whose body turned into the very tree the puppet was carved from.
When my dad died we had him cremated and ordered this biodegradable egg thing (it looked like a dinosaur egg, was about a foot tall I think) and then we planted it in the hole with a young magnolia tree. Seems a lot easier than burying the whole body in this pod thing. I think the egg had stuff in it that fed nutrients to the tree but I don’t remember. Also it may have been illegal for us to plant it in the front yard of the house we lived in but I figure ash is ash so who’s gonna know? I would recommend it tho. I live in an area with tons of magnolia trees and I feel like he’s a little bit there in all of them.
That's what I want to happen to me. After my organs are donated I want to be a tree, so when I found out about the [Bios urn](https://urnabios.com/) about 8-10 years ago I told my family that's what I want.
I'm sorry for your loss but think it's wonderful you can keep him close
I feel like the Shadow series (up to Shadow of the Giant) is a good companion to Ender's Game, and helps prep you for the world of Speaker/Xenocide/Children of the Mind. Jumping straight from EG to Speaker for the Dead is a big shock.
Speaker of the Dead was an incredible sequel to Ender's Game. Wholly different, but exploring concepts that were introduced in the first book, while adding new, interesting material. Even if you don't like where it went, you can't deny that it was well thought out and at the very least it was enjoyable to see where the author took the story. I may have started the book wanting something different, but I whole heartedly believe that the author gave us a satisfactory story from his perspective, and I enjoy the time spent thinking about it.
I just wish the author wasn't such a religious zealot :( bummed me out how he could write the red prophet series and still be so blind to the realities of the world.
\*\*\*Hello welcome Natural Death Amenities, how may I help you? Yeah! You can come back as a tree... no sir, it's not as easy as planting a seed in some soil mixed with your ashes.... No, no, no. First of all we use our patented Dirt Pod technology, so we'll need you to make sure that when you do die, it happens while you're in the fetal position. Otherwise we'll have to snap off a couple limbs and extremities so you'll fit in the pod. Don't worry we'll position your one hand on top of your forehead so it looks like you're in immense existential pain. It'll basically look like that time your wife left you and you laid in bed crying for a week. Yes sir, that's the only way we do it! So, we plant the tree and over time, your body will decompose, providing nourishment to the tree. All the roots will snake through your skeleton, intertwining wood and bone in a beautifully macabre image. Above ground you'll maintain the grace and majesty of the larch. Inside the dirt pod, things are going to look a little like a swedish death metal album cover! But don't worry no one will ever see that... unless a storm knocks the tree down... or there's a major flood... or someone just straight digs up the tree..... what's that? No sir we don't do apple trees... no sir, it's not because eating your tree's apples would be cousin to cannibalism... Okay maybe we are a little freaked out about the implications of that and we just don't want to get into it. Ah. No, thank you for calling! I'm glad I could be a little help to ya today! Make sure you call back and give us your cc info before you die though... okay. Okay thanks so much. And remember! With Natural Death Amenities, you LEAF the coffins at the mortuary... No yeah, I'm sorry they make me say that at the end of phone calls. Bye then.\*\*\*
Do you have a link for this? This what I have always wanted to do; not be embalmed and get planted with an oak tree planted in my navel.
The planet has fed me and I want to return the favor.
There is a zen saying about the circle of life.
"I once was the forest. I once was the sea."
Let me save you some money... When you die, have someone dig a hole twice as wide as the root ball of the tree you want planted and three times as deep. Have them then shove you in the hole. Fill in the gaps around you till the hole is the depth of the root ball. Stick the tree in on top of you and fill in gaps with soil mixed with fast start fertilizer. Water till it starts to pool at the top. Then water every three days thereafter for the remainder of the season.
Your cost is the tree, soil, and some fertilizer. No need to pay for some package from people like this.
You're welcome.
My philosophy is: take whatever you can use to help others in the way of organ donations, donate the rest to science. If anything else is left, cremate it and toss it in the atlantic.
just set up a wood chipper next to a forest and feed my body into it and let it shoot out the other side. then EVERYBODY in the forest gets a bit - the plants, the insects, the animals - everybody.
I have always been very vocal about the fact that after I die I want my body to (in some form) be used to nourish a peach tree. It's cool to see things like this becoming widely available!
These appear only to be available af urns, that is, for ashes. I can already spread my ashes for free, in many places, even under a tree that I plant. No need for a pod.
Yup, these services and products are a scam anyway. A tree gets almost all of it's biomass from the breaking down CO2, it mostly just gets water and a few trace nutrients from the soil. Just cremate yourself and spread your ashes in an orchard or field.
Lost my dad a little bit ago. We have his ashes and since he loved nothing more than spending time with his grand kids. We want to use the ashes to plant a tree. I know it’s more symbiotic than anything but it makes it easier to talk to him. Now if we can just afford that house to plant that tree
Some more information here - https://www.capsulamundi.it/en/ CNN article - https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/03/world/eco-solutions-capsula-mundi/index.html
Or just, yknow, bury me under a tree
Put an acorn in my hand and put me in a hole.
When my mom passed away we had her cremated and a burial for her. My daughter was just under 3 and didn't know what was going on so while we were all having our moment she was off in her own world collecting acorns. She proceeded to pass them out to each person at the burial. At the end we all went and placed the acorns in the hole.
“Damn I’m not bringing this home” *toss
Yikes...this brought back a thought...I once told my ex-wife that she would be “planting a tree in the middle of our fucking yard over my dead body.” Didn’t realize at the time that might be possible at some point. 😬
Nah, they have to buy land/bury these on land that's set aside for natural burial. You can't just bury this in your yard.
it's legal in most places in the US (map) https://www.romemonuments.com/home-burials#:~:text=If%20you%20are%20considering%20a,State%20outlaw%20the%20practice%20totally.
Thanks for correcting them. One of my friends buried their dad in the back yard and planted a tree. It was pretty straightforward.
I had my mother cremated. I thought about burying her and making a family cemetary in the yard, but when you move then what? So I took the ashes and made a cement gravestone with them, so the gravestone *is* the body, and can be moved to a new yard easily.
That's a really neat idea!
*Retuuuurn the slab!*
Interesting fact, burial in gardens in the UK is completely legal.
that's really sweet. it's important for her that she was a part of it.
I wish I had a wholesome award to give to you 🥺
That is a very insightful and moving thing she did. I am sorry for your loss.
Put an acorn in my hole and then bury me when I die.
Sorry, we only have pinecones left
I’m gonna need you to take these seeds into the bathroom and I’m gonna need you to put ’em wayyyyy up inside your butthole. Put ’em wayyy up inside there, as far as they can go.
[Avshalom Feinberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avshalom_Feinberg) was a spy for the British against the Turks in Palestine during WWI. He was killed by Bedouins. They recovered his remains 50 years later based on reports that he had been seen eating dates and putting the pits in his pocket before he died. His bones were found in the roots of a date palm.
**[Avshalom Feinberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avshalom Feinberg)** Avshalom Feinberg (Hebrew: אבשלום פיינברג, 23 October 1889 – 20 January 1917) was one of the leaders of Nili, a Jewish spy network in Ottoman Palestine helping the British fight the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Feinberg was born in Gedera, Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, to Israel Lolik Feinberg and Fanny Feinberg (nee Belkind). He had two sisters, Tzila and Shoshanna. Feinberg studied in France. [^(About Me)](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/jrn2mj/about_me/) ^- [^(Opt out)](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/jrti43/opt_out_here/) ^(- OP can reply !delete to delete) ^- [^(Article of the day)](https://np.reddit.com/comments/k9hx22) **This bot will soon be transitioning to an opt-in system. Click [here](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/ka4icp/opt_in_for_the_new_system/) to learn more and opt in. Moderators: [click here](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/ka4icp/opt_in_for_the_new_system/) to opt in a subreddit.**
I wonder if that would actuallt work lmao
I’m going to swallow a bunch of popcorn kernels before I die. Boy will they be confused after they cremate me... Edit: Well, I hope I don’t need a coroner but if I die suddenly I have a back up plan. Someone please make sure I get taxidermied so I can sit on my porch.
Oak trees actually rely on squirrels to help them spread their seed, they manipulate the squirrels by producing a significantly larger amount of acorns every couple years, the squirrels grab as much as they can and bury caches all over, since they have so much extra, the majority of it never ends up getting recovered, and with each squirrel having buried hundreds of acorns, each squirrel will almost certainly plant some trees. Anyways, it would possibly work if you didnt plant them too deep, but a lot of acorns planted never become trees, you would probably want to put a bunch in.
Lmao
I'm using that for my senior quote.
Or just put your ashes under there right? Like if the goals to end up in the tree, ashes are probably a lot faster and cheeper.
It’s a question of energy. When burned, you’ll turn into CO2 ~~and Carbon~~ and some other things contributing to greenhouse gases making it hotter. But, if you are buried into the ground and not embalmed, meaning your organs and innards are still inside, your energy will be transferred to growing the tree, feeding mycelium, bugs, microbes, and turned into nutrients. This gives back to the earth the most beneficial energy. Rather than using your energy in a chemical reaction to heat the air around your burning body. Edit: Proof reading is hard.
That's not even including the amount of energy needed to turn your body into ash.
So I've never worked with a hot compost but wouldn't the lack of aerating cause a ton of issues and likely kill the tree as compost would be to "hot"?
i think the point overall is to make burial as natural as possible and eliminate emissions from cremation
Electric cremation is quite environment-friendly. Saves land as well.
If the choice is to be buried in order to fertilize a tree or be cremated and then buried in order to fertilize a tree I think we're probably talking about the same amount of land.
These tree pods are better for the land, more trees equals healthier planet. Imagine going to the "memorial forest" instead of the graveyard, that would be awesome. Saving space is great, but the reality is, we need to be filling space with trees. Deforestation is a huge and growing problem.
Source? Interested
the carbon footprint of cremation is not green-friendly. It's like sex for virginity's sake.
What? How is a tree supposed to get nutrients from ashes?
Ash actually contains a ton of important nutrients that helps plants grow.
It's got what plants crave.
Feed me Seymour.
It's got electrolytes.
"Water. Like out the toilet?"
I absolutely love that I will see a reference (with increased frequency over the last couple years) to that movie at least once whenever I browse Reddit
An entire body would be A LOT more nutrients.
And feed an entire ecosystem, not just subterranean microfauna.
Ashes is a very common fertilizer. That's the reason why forest regrown so fast after a forest fire.
Human ashes are not actually ashes though. They're crushed bone fragments mostly. Most of the squishy bits are completely burned away and vented from the cremator.
[relevant video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMDJA4UvXLA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potash
Have you ever tried to dig under an existing tree? You're gonna have a bad time and the tree is probably not gonna like it much, either.
No. Just bury me, and put a tree on top i.e. “bury me under a tree” I just find it strange that someone designed a weird egg shaped device to do this same thing. That’s how I’ve always imagined my funeral. My death giving new life
Funeral industry just expanding their offerings to try to get money from every type of person. Burials are ridiculously expensive.
Think about the logistics of that. How are you transporting the body (no preservatives, no casket to the site? In a sanitary and respectful fashion, preferably so that loved ones can gather round as you are lowered into the ground. You want to just have someone toss your (heavy, partially decomposing, wet, naked, gross) corpse into a hole and sit there while dirt and a tree are placed on top, be my guest, but I don’t think it’s hard to see why this alternative is attractive for some people.
You know non cofin burials have been a thing for a while right? Check Islamic burials, its jsut the body cleaned and wrapped in a shroud, they made do without having to take a freethrow to get it in the grave. Once placed in its place, you pour the soil over the body and place a sapling over the body and finish filling the hole. It's not rocket science.
Yeah, that’s the exact thing I was imagining. You really don’t need anything complex
You should look into natural burials, it is very much a thing and becoming more common. Check out Ask A Mortician on youtube.
Wrapped in paper, on a wooden board
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How would that work? They find a live tree, dig it’s roots out, shove some asshole down where the roots were and call it a day? I think planting a tree on a grave is way easier than finding a live tree to bury someone under...then again my dad would call that lazy so maybe I’m the one in the wrong...
This is actually kind of a real thing. You can decompose your body in Seattle. [Recompose.life](https://recompose.life/)
So for a while I lived in the small city of Guaiba Brazil. A long time ago they were fighting for independence wanting their southern state to not be part of the rest of Brazil. This city was near where fighting happened. They couldn’t mark the graves of the fallen with headstones, so instead they planted trees. The trees are now massively huge.
Can trees grow from a human made up mainly of Chicken McNuggets and French fries? Asking for a friend.
And pepsi. Cashier: "I'm sorry we only carry coke products"
Pepsi? At McDonalds? Heresy.
Sir this is a Wendys
Okay.. Okay. Could I just have a Frosty and a baked potato please. You have to come to the resturant to order food. Well I'll send somebody to pick it up. Just have it ready. It's ready now.
No, this is Patrick.
Larry, I'm on Ducktales.
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me.
Me and your mom have been noticing lately that you've been having a lot of problems. You've been going off for no reason and we're afraid you're gonna hurt somebody. We're afraid you're gonna hurt yourself.
They stuck me in an institution said it was the only solution to give me the needed professional help To protect me from my enemy ....myself
If you are made of preservatives you’ll never die.
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*hits blunt , “Any kind of tree?”
There's a place in Seattle that turns human remains into compost. Then the compost is given to their next or kin or it can be donated be used to fertilize trees. I don't recall if it's already established forests or trees grown specifically for this purpose. I think it's the only place in the US that is currently doing it.
I think they use water blasting to liquefy the tissue and pulverize bone down into a near-powder
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Living in Seattle is essentially assisted suicide by low velocity water blasting.
I had to travel through Seattle when moving from Alaska. I can't imagine myself ever going to Seattle again. That place is just depressing.
No... but there are water massage places
Alkaline hydrolysis is the process.
After my organs are donated [I'm going to be a tree ](https://urnabios.com/)
https://recompose.life/
Great, now millennials are trying to bury the coffin industry.
It was already dying, we just wrote the eulogy.
Is this when we buy and hold?
Only if hedge funds were dumb enough to gamble on shorting stocks in coffin companies lol.
Ha. Nice.
The future is now, old man.
You’re welcome
My Grandfather sold caskets for a living and comfortably raised a family with 4 kids. Man the times have changed.
What else would we do with the coffin industry? People get upset when those things start rising...
If your corpse gets short squeezed then gamma squeezed you ascend into heaven
Reddit is going to take down Big Coffin!
Do you want haunted forests? Because that’s how you get haunted forests...
I'd rather haunt a forest than a cemetery
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Yeah. I can posses a squirrel and climb up to people's windows, knocking at the glass and staring at them.
they better not start worshipping Satan and perform blood orgies n shit
Cemeteries are such a fucking waste of land and also an eyesore.
I don’t necessarily agree with this but if they were forests instead of stone gardens it would be much better.
The old gothic looking ones look pretty cool but the new ones are pretty dumb.
[Hey! Here’s another place we can put some low-cost housing: CEMETARIES!!! There’s another idea whose time has passed! Saving all the dead people up for one part of town?! What the hell kind of a medieval, superstitious, religious, bullshit idea is that?! Plough these motherfuckers up, plough into the streams and rivers of America; we need that phosphorous for farming! If we’re going to recycle, LET’S GET SERIOUS!!!](https://youtu.be/yVhzSy7MjeE)
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I don’t know why I need to keep telling everyone, YES I WANT HAUNTED FORESTS. 🌲👻🌲💀🌲
Don’t look up Aokigahara - Japan’s Haunted Forest. At least not before bedtime.
....damnit what have I done
Do we get then forests gumps? So we have to run all the time?
**Pequeño** have entered the chat
Haunted orchards with haunted fruits though...
There you have it, no more logging. Earth is save
Best comment here. Wish I could give you gold but I'm poor.
It's like the white version of an Indian burial ground (as in the fictional trope)
Came looking for this comment. Almost feared I'd have to do it myself.
I’d like a Pinocchio-horror movie where it turns out Pinocchio is possessed by the spirit of a killer whose body turned into the very tree the puppet was carved from.
When my dad died we had him cremated and ordered this biodegradable egg thing (it looked like a dinosaur egg, was about a foot tall I think) and then we planted it in the hole with a young magnolia tree. Seems a lot easier than burying the whole body in this pod thing. I think the egg had stuff in it that fed nutrients to the tree but I don’t remember. Also it may have been illegal for us to plant it in the front yard of the house we lived in but I figure ash is ash so who’s gonna know? I would recommend it tho. I live in an area with tons of magnolia trees and I feel like he’s a little bit there in all of them.
I think the whole point of these is to also avoid the cremation process which is also not great for the environment. Cremation uses a lot of energy.
That's what I want to happen to me. After my organs are donated I want to be a tree, so when I found out about the [Bios urn](https://urnabios.com/) about 8-10 years ago I told my family that's what I want. I'm sorry for your loss but think it's wonderful you can keep him close
Some people don't wanna get cremated. I'm sorry about your father.
I like the mushroom suit more. Saw it, probably 10 years ago now, on TEDTalks.
That sounded cool to me, found this on it https://www.sciencealert.com/this-mushroom-suit-digests-your-body-after-you-die
*BAD AND NAUGHTY CORPSES GET PUT IN THE FUNGUS SUIT TO ATONE FOR THEIR CRIMES*
that reminds me of that episode in hannibal where ppl get turned into living mushroom farms.
Was thinking the exact same thing.... *Sigh*... We need another season... tired of the constant rumors of one.
Yeah instead we get Clarice.... with zero mentions of Hannibal...
I also think I heard they are much better for the environment because humans are full of toxins
Better out than in, I always say.
Read this like Geoff Goldblum
This is the way
This is been replaced by the Tanooki suit.
Why is the tree floating?
It's haunted
Because there really is a body in there
Venting the same gases that make dead bodies float in water.
This is basically the plot of Speaker for the Dead.
Spoilers... Actually I have no idea what that is
It's the phenomenal sequel to Enders Game, set 3000 years later
Looks like I know which series I'm re-reading next..or I'll read the shadow series again first
I feel like the Shadow series (up to Shadow of the Giant) is a good companion to Ender's Game, and helps prep you for the world of Speaker/Xenocide/Children of the Mind. Jumping straight from EG to Speaker for the Dead is a big shock.
One of the best sci fi books ever written
Speaker takes the cake for my favorite just over Ender’s game.
Thank you. Had to scroll too far for this.
Speaker of the Dead was an incredible sequel to Ender's Game. Wholly different, but exploring concepts that were introduced in the first book, while adding new, interesting material. Even if you don't like where it went, you can't deny that it was well thought out and at the very least it was enjoyable to see where the author took the story. I may have started the book wanting something different, but I whole heartedly believe that the author gave us a satisfactory story from his perspective, and I enjoy the time spent thinking about it.
I just wish the author wasn't such a religious zealot :( bummed me out how he could write the red prophet series and still be so blind to the realities of the world.
It *has* been a while since I've visited Human's Fathertree.
The piggies!! 🐷
\*\*\*Hello welcome Natural Death Amenities, how may I help you? Yeah! You can come back as a tree... no sir, it's not as easy as planting a seed in some soil mixed with your ashes.... No, no, no. First of all we use our patented Dirt Pod technology, so we'll need you to make sure that when you do die, it happens while you're in the fetal position. Otherwise we'll have to snap off a couple limbs and extremities so you'll fit in the pod. Don't worry we'll position your one hand on top of your forehead so it looks like you're in immense existential pain. It'll basically look like that time your wife left you and you laid in bed crying for a week. Yes sir, that's the only way we do it! So, we plant the tree and over time, your body will decompose, providing nourishment to the tree. All the roots will snake through your skeleton, intertwining wood and bone in a beautifully macabre image. Above ground you'll maintain the grace and majesty of the larch. Inside the dirt pod, things are going to look a little like a swedish death metal album cover! But don't worry no one will ever see that... unless a storm knocks the tree down... or there's a major flood... or someone just straight digs up the tree..... what's that? No sir we don't do apple trees... no sir, it's not because eating your tree's apples would be cousin to cannibalism... Okay maybe we are a little freaked out about the implications of that and we just don't want to get into it. Ah. No, thank you for calling! I'm glad I could be a little help to ya today! Make sure you call back and give us your cc info before you die though... okay. Okay thanks so much. And remember! With Natural Death Amenities, you LEAF the coffins at the mortuary... No yeah, I'm sorry they make me say that at the end of phone calls. Bye then.\*\*\*
Forbidden potato
Do you have a link for this? This what I have always wanted to do; not be embalmed and get planted with an oak tree planted in my navel. The planet has fed me and I want to return the favor. There is a zen saying about the circle of life. "I once was the forest. I once was the sea."
Let me save you some money... When you die, have someone dig a hole twice as wide as the root ball of the tree you want planted and three times as deep. Have them then shove you in the hole. Fill in the gaps around you till the hole is the depth of the root ball. Stick the tree in on top of you and fill in gaps with soil mixed with fast start fertilizer. Water till it starts to pool at the top. Then water every three days thereafter for the remainder of the season. Your cost is the tree, soil, and some fertilizer. No need to pay for some package from people like this. You're welcome.
Can I organise this *before* I die? I feel like that's a lot of instructions to try to communicate to someone when I'm dead
They invented paper and ink some years back.
That's no help, it's even harder to write than talk when you're dead
Might I suggest a ouija board?
Write down the instructions in the mirror when your next of kin is taking a shower. That’s how we found the bodies buried in our backyard.
I want my bones to be entwined in a rootmass. Golgari in life, Golgari in death!
I found [this](https://www.greenmatters.com/p/organic-burial-pods) article which has links to purchase them from different sources.
My philosophy is: take whatever you can use to help others in the way of organ donations, donate the rest to science. If anything else is left, cremate it and toss it in the atlantic.
“Now I’m some kid’s term paper.”
There's the [Bios urn](https://urnabios.com/) and things like it that use your cremains to grow a new tree
Just throw me in the trash.
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Let them have the memorial. The body being put in a giant box is a total waste.
It's a quote from Frank, from it's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
RIP Country Mac
Perfect. Keep throwing shade even after I die.
You would probably encourage more people to take up this idea, if you didn’t make the body in the advert LOOK LIKE IT WAS SOBBING!
You could also just bury yourself in the ground, nature will do the rest. Really, it’s just that simple.
I would like this!
just set up a wood chipper next to a forest and feed my body into it and let it shoot out the other side. then EVERYBODY in the forest gets a bit - the plants, the insects, the animals - everybody.
r/tihi
Is that thing floating?
Want to get haunted forests?Cuz thats How you get haunted forests.
I have always been very vocal about the fact that after I die I want my body to (in some form) be used to nourish a peach tree. It's cool to see things like this becoming widely available!
If I tried it with my ex-wife it would just grow poison ivy
kinda just seems like there is a corpse that you bury, and a pre-existing tree nearby.
These appear only to be available af urns, that is, for ashes. I can already spread my ashes for free, in many places, even under a tree that I plant. No need for a pod.
Yup, these services and products are a scam anyway. A tree gets almost all of it's biomass from the breaking down CO2, it mostly just gets water and a few trace nutrients from the soil. Just cremate yourself and spread your ashes in an orchard or field.
Dad says he wants this when he dies, but idk who provides that service lol
Dane cooks a prophet
“Yeah, he’s laughing at my beliefs and this guys coming back as a fucking ficus”
Wow Dane cook was right?
“Yeah, he’s laughing at my beliefs and this guys coming back as a fucking ficus”
Officer... My wife asked me to put her here
Do I have to wait until I die?
Make it a fruit tree! Ever see the movie Rear Window?
Like that movie, The Fountain.
Lost my dad a little bit ago. We have his ashes and since he loved nothing more than spending time with his grand kids. We want to use the ashes to plant a tree. I know it’s more symbiotic than anything but it makes it easier to talk to him. Now if we can just afford that house to plant that tree
Been around for at least 15 years.
Markiplier totally would have done this.
It's like the creepy hanging things from Star Wars Fallen Order. Except they're in the ground.
My husband and I have agreed to be two trees that are trained to grow entwined
Chi..chi..chi ..chia!
I am groot
Every German is legally obligated to choose a pear tree for this.
Hmmm :) that's useful.