Tasmania, the Australian island, is making the news due to its eco-friendly and softer approach to funerals. Their Community Coffin Club started practicing the flat pack coffin alternative. Death is a subject that concerns us, the living. Our views on death and the rituals surrounding it have evolved as we […]
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Alternatives to Traditional Burials: Biodegradable Pod Turns Bodies into Trees
Capsula Mundi is an egg-shaped pod that allows for a buried corpse or ashes to supply a tree planted above it with nutrients and help it grow. Indeed, our carbon footprint doesn’t end with our death- while we rest in peace, the wood, the synthetic cushioning, and the metals used […]
Death Becomes more Sustainable with the Launch of the First Human Composting Centre
One of the most enigmatic and profound questions in life is definitely ‘what happens to us when we die?’ Even though we don’t have any insights on afterlife, we do have news about what can be done with our body after we die. The after-death centre Recompose offers a new […]
Stunning Viral Video Shows Ants Carrying Flowers to a Dead Bee. Is This A Funeral?
Nicole Webinger, a resident of Minnesota, recently posted a video that quickly went viral, and amazed everyone, especially scientists. On the video, Webinger caught a pretty odd behavior which according to experts is something they’ve never seen before among ants- they’re carrying petals of flowers over the body of a […]