Video: Green grove instead of the usual cemetery: capsule coffins for eco-burial
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Ideas about the reincarnation of the soul have not left humanity for millennia, but it is customary to treat a mortal body in different cultures in different ways. Some are buried in the ground, the second are cremated, and still others are given to be eaten by predators. From now on, another alternative has appeared: the bodies of the dead are proposed to be returned to the ground in a special capsule, from which a tree later grows.
The idea of such an unusual eco-burial belongs to Italian designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel. Coffin capsules got the name "Capsula Mundi" and have already gained popularity at various international exhibitions. The idea is as simple as the world: to return after death to where we came from, to become a part of nature, leaving behind not just a stone tombstone, but a living tree that will keep the memory of the deceased for many decades.
The capsule looks symbolic, resembling an egg in shape, the body of the deceased is located in it in the position of an embryo, as if returning to its "original" position. The walls of the capsule are made of bioplastic, which will gradually degrade. The eco-coffin is buried in the ground, like an onion, a sapling of a tree is planted above it. The designers even dared to suggest different types of trees for planting, so if you want you can choose who "to become". Over time, such cemeteries will turn into memorial groves, which will only benefit our long-suffering planet.
While the project is under development, as Italian law prohibits such burials. If they manage to get permission, then the designers hope that people will enthusiastically accept the idea of leaving behind a blooming garden on the planet, and not a reinforced concrete desert. Environmentalists claim that it is much better to become fertilizer for a new tree than to cut down the next one and put together a coffin. By and large, everyone will benefit from this, because children and great-grandchildren will also have somewhere to come to honor their memory - to a symbolic tree, in the shade of which it will be possible to rest and think about the eternal.
In addition to eco-initiatives, there are quite a few merry fellows who make unconventional dominoes for fun. Not so long ago, the company "Crazy Coffins", specializing in the manufacture of original coffins, received an order to manufacture a coffin resembling a bottle of the legendary Jack Daniels whiskey.
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