I believe that sustainable means of death care are an essential aspect of approaching a sustainable world.
I envision a world where sustainable death care is more prevalent and accessible in the world, granting more choices as to how one's body is dealt with after death. In this world, people would come understand that honoring the memory of someone has died is not mutually exclusive with returning the deceased back to nature.
Making sustainable death care accessible could likely be achieved by subsiziding related practices. However, in order to make sustainable death more prevalent, people need to be able to openly discuss their stance on death care and be able to make their own choices without being coerced to choose otherwise by social pressures. Thus, in order to make this vision possible, interventions are required. One such intervention could be to educate people, providing comprehensive information on the various forms of death care. This way, people would understand what is done with their bodies upon death, thereby potentially encouraging discussions on how they want their bodies to be treated after death and opening new choices for people who would have otherwise only believed in the existence of traditional methods such as casket burial.
Earthworms are detritivores that participate in decomposition and thus contribute nutrients back into the ecosystem. By making sustainable death care practices more accessible to the public, then many people would also be able to contribute to ecosystems by returning their bodies back to nature instead of confining their remains in a box until they are forgotten. Image by Fir0002 on Wikimedia commons. Retrieved on November 10, 2023 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earthworm.jpg