Currently, the main options for dealing with the deceased are either to bury them or to cremate them. I would love to live in a world where all the effort we put into helping the environment and our communities during our lives can continue in death #UnleashValues Switching to the European standard of organ donation being the default would be beneficial to those still living. Of course, you'd have the ability to opt out of this but I think that making this the default would yield higher organ donations than what we're currently seeing. Plus, once you've donated your organs, there is still more that our bodies can do. Nowadays you can actually be turned into a structure to aid the regrowth of corals or have your ashes incorporated into soil to grow a tree. I like these alternatives and how they provide us with another chance to help our environment and personally think that I might want to do something like this when it's my turn.
Here are the articles for the coral memorials:
and the tree seedlings:
https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/green-goodbye-b-c-company-s-biodegradable-urns-transform-ashes-into-trees-1.3254071#:~:text=The%20urn%20mixes%20human%20or,cremains%20and%20become%20a%20tree.%E2%80%9D
I didn't know bodies could be used to grow corals! That's amazing!
Thanks for sharing these! I hope that in the future, if we can move away from embalming and cremation, we might be able to see not just our ashes turned into reefs and fertilizer, but our bodies themselves. There is so much nitrogen and phosphorus and carbon in our bodies that gets burnt into GHGs, which is a complete shame when these compounds could be kept out of the atmosphere and serve to support further life.
Wow thank you for sharing the article on life after death and helping the aid of corals.
Its fascinating to think we can continue to help the betterment of our planet after death
There's something strangely beautiful about using our dead bodies to grow trees or corals! I didn't know those options existed.
I like to think that even when you are gone, your legacy can still live on through what is done with you body after death.