First, you’re dead. Then you’re a tree

by Adrian Mack on October 3rd, 2011 at 4:03 PM

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Personally, I’d like to have my mummified remains propped up on a stick like in the opening scene of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (NOT the remake...), but here’s another nice option for those of you who plan to die eventually.

Behold Poetree, a newfangled urn designed by Margaux Ruyant that lets you commemorate your mortality with something a little more substantial than a headstone that nobody ever visits or an unmarked tin stuffed behind a bunch of other shit in your basement.

For more on the greening of death, visit Treehugger.

Comments

2 Comments

Gran

Oct 3, 2011 at 9:05pm

Dang Gran u look so much better now :)

A. MacInnis

Oct 4, 2011 at 1:45am

Edward Abbey, as I recall, asked his friends to drag his remains into the desert and leave his body in his sleeping bag, there to be "recycled" by the animals... It's strangely appealing. To heck with worms, bugs, plants and bacteria - I wanna feed me some mammals (and/or birds).

Of course, there's also the Tibetan custom of the sky burial, where corpses are cut up and fed to vultures and such: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial