Italians develop organic burial capsules that turn deceased into trees

Project's aim is to produce memorial parks filled with trees, as opposed to tombstones in dreary cemeteries


Web Desk February 27, 2015
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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.

Read: Reminiscence: Life under the Molsri tree

However, at the moment, the project is just a notion as Italian law forbids such burials.


PHOTO: BOREDPANDA.COM

The aim of the project is actually to produce memorial parks filled with trees, as opposed to usual tombstones in dreary cemeteries.

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