Eco-Friendly Alternative to Coffins
Project designers, Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel have constructed a biodegradable, organic capsule as an alternative to a coffin called, “The Capsula Mundi.” The purpose of the project is a conceptually and physically beautiful one; it is to reunite the deceased body back with nature and life. After the deceased is buried in a fetal position inside the pod, a tree seed or tree will be planted above the capsule. Within time the body’s nutrients will nurture the ground, causing a tree to grow from the remains.
Instead of harming the environment by chopping down trees for wooden coffins and burying them, the project’s aim is to promote green cemeteries adorned with trees, you can chose. Originally conceived in Italy, the project is a working theory at the moment because Italian law forbids this type of burial. The goal is to comfort loved ones with a majestic body of nature they can visit. “A cemetery will no longer be full of tombstones and will become a sacred forest.”
View the process below.
The client will choose the tree.
The deceased person will be buried in a fetal position inside the pod.
Their bodies will transform into nutrients for a tree to grow.
This will create a green cemetery.
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Also there is the potential for the spirit of the vengeful dead to inhabit the tree, turning it into a nightmarish horror bent on devouring all things.
But that’s a minor issue.
^literally my first thought
this is like seriously how shit should have always been done. now we have fucking cemeteries allover and theres only so much land. We only borrow our bodies and we should give them back to earth. like you can even just use your ashes to help fertilize the soil and do the same thing
Forests would be a much better memorial. Things that live as a reminder of what once was and what will be, a transformation of one thing into another and the continuity of life, useful life forms that sustain life for countless other things; instead of a thing once made by man, destined to crumble and become unreadable with time, eroded by wind, broken and hidden, condemned to disappear. serving no purpose. Better to become one with the Green and remain amongst the living, I say. So much better.
