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I understand they are in Italy. I was thinking through what would happen here.
Not all places here in the US would require a vault for burial. The biodegradable pod wouldn't be that much different from a cardboard casket which to my understanding is allowed in some places. I don't know that for a fact, but I remember Casket rentals and cardboard boxes as part of a discussion during a Death and Dying Class I took in college years ago.
True. We just prepaid funeral expenses for my aunt (who is in a nursing home & has dementia). She's not being embalmed, and she is being buried in a regular casket, but the cardboard was an option if we'd wanted. We were going with her previously expressed wishes, though, and so chose a pretty white casket for her.
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Forget that. I want to have my body bronzed and mounted as a statue in my front yard or possibly the town square.
Being more realistic I have been saving a brass spittoon to have mounted by my headstone so people don't slip on the dance floor I'm pretty sure will be installed over my grave...
I read a sci fi book once where the life forms on another planet would kill one of their own with a stake occasionally. The earthling humans were horrifed until they found out that a tree would grow from their bodies, and these trees were sentient beings.
I think it was by Orson Scott Card but I don't remember which series it was.
When a friend of mine died she was cremated and her ashes were spread throughout the woods where she liked to hike along with the ashes of her beloved very old cat who had also died within days of her death.
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Sounds like a better idea......plus saves on space.
I want my ashes spread on my favorite beach. My family could have a vacation while taking me there.
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, fertilizer to tree,
I'll be dead so it won't matter, its all the same to me.
There! You already have your tombstone all written out and ready!
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