When there is life, there is also death. Death is natural and inevitable, you may prolong your life for a while but sooner or later it will end too.
I know it’s hard to lose someone dear to your heart especially if the cause of death is unnatural and sudden. Losing someone will tear your heart in unimaginable way, a feeling the keeps drilling deep inside. And the hardest part is saying goodbye for the last time in a creepy place where we will remember our loved ones.
But aren’t you fed up that most of us when we die our body will end up in a scary and creepy place like these…
Or some will be staying with their family in an URN together with some freaky stuff…
But, is it possible to end up in a place where people won’t get scared and avoid like this beautiful nature?
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Guess what? Two Italian designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel wish to re-invent how we remember our loved ones after they pass away.
They come up with an idea called Capsula Mundi, a 100% biodegradable coffin-shaped like an egg made from starch plastic (made from potato and corn plants).
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Our body will be place in a fetal position inside the capsule for our burial.
The egg capsule is planted in the soil, and a tree will be planted on top of it.
You can even choose what kind of tree you want to be planted. Well if you did not have the chance to choose, let your family deal with it.
It’s rather cool to be part of nature and become “a memory forest” than lie on the creepy cemetery were people don’t want to stay long.
Isn’t great that with this kind of burial are decaying body will give life not just to the trees and other plants but also to other living things including humans. We will be able to help the Earth to recover from destructions and lessen the cutting down of trees for making graveyards.
Unfortunately, this type of burial is not yet legal in the United States or Italy and some parts of the world. But one thing for sure, this new way of burial will linger in their minds and might have a second thought.
I think this new way of burying dead people and probably even animals is quite better than cremation. Burning can cause damage to ozone layer while Capsula Mundi creates new life and helps the environment. What do you think?