Two Italians have come up with a nature-friendly way to bury your loved ones.
One can now choose to turn the bodies of the deceased into nutrients for a tree – which will grow using the remains of the body, according to Boredpanda.com.
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Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel, designers of the Capsula Mundi project, are the brains behind this development.
So, rather than opting for coffins, people can choose a tree instead which will be sustained by the dead!
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How does this concept come into action? Well, first the deceased will be enclosed in a capsule in the fetal position. That capsule will then be buried, over which a tree or tree seed will be planted.
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One can even choose what tree they want, as the project’s site gives you an option of trees.
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However, at the moment, the project is just a notion as Italian law forbids such burials.
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The aim of the project is actually to produce memorial parks filled with trees, as opposed to usual tombstones in dreary cemeteries.