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Get buried in a pine wood box, you'll be gone in < 100 years. Plant a tree ontop and create something productive in your later years.
by gonzo41 4y ago
Get buried in a pine wood box, you'll be gone in < 100 years. Plant a tree ontop and create something productive in your later years.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoThat seems to be the way to go. I used to want to be cremated but now that seems ridiculous given that I'd be ending my existence with yet another display of extravagant and pointless waste, so a pine box where I can return to the earth with the least amount of fuss is really appealing.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoYou're welcome to whatever opinion you have, but as an archaeologist cremation or not doesn't really change the amount of fuss given to the dead. I've excavated huge burial mounds with both. The cremated remains are usually a lot easier to deal with though.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoI just meant from an environmental point of view, not a "digging me back up" angle.
- gonzo41 4y agoThis is my primary concern, I would rather sequester carbon as a tree than contribute it in particulate via cremation. Disclaimer, if my next tree self burns down that's on the tree and not me :)
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoNot to mention that you're depriving nature of any nutrients you are holding. You're jealously burning your wealth to ensure that no one else can have it.
- Jaruzel 4y agoThere is a growing[1] movement of being buried covered in mushrooms, including the box you are in, to speed up the decomposition, and to leave as little impact on the land as possible. I previously wanted to be cremated, but now being composted by fungi seems to be the right way to go. -- [1] no pun intended.