Keeping a lid on your carbon footprint doesnβt stop with your last breath. Your choice of funeral can have a significant environmental impact. In a recent report by the US-based National Funeral Directors Association, 60.5% of those surveyed expressed their interest in greener options including resomation (water cremation) human composting and natural burials.
https://www.positive.news/society/eco-concerns-prompt-green-funeral-options/
I debated for a while on if I should post this or not (rather morbid, I know) but I think it's an important thing to think about.
Mushroom burials FTW.
If you aren't aware, loads of heavy metals accumulate in your body throughout your lifetime. Dental fillings, vaccines and regular sneaky consumption lead to there being quite a lot of these chems in you. When you melt away those chemicals and toxins flow into groundwaters.
Fungi are hungry little fuckers who turn all that garbage into mycelium which is easily reintroduced into the food chain without leeching poison into groundwaters.
Afaik this is the only burial method that handles these heavy metals and toxic compounds without distributing them to the local environment.
Source: worked the graveyard shift during the day.
Weren't mushroom burials "debunked"?
My local cemetery has about half their landdedicated as a state-certified nature trail where they have to meet some pretty tight regulations to have that credential.
That's where I first learned about mushroom burials, they had a lot of literature on it and at first glance it seems legit to me.
I'd say regardless of the heavy metals mushroom burial is MUCH more ecologically friendly that other methods. you're basically in an organic sleeping bag stuffed with mushroom spores that will consume you quickly.
No casket, no cement burial vault to contain your goo (your goo is repurposed live), no smoke plume from your combustion or acidic ashes spread around.
I am interested in it being "debunked" though, could you elaborate a bit?
That's incredibly cool. Like, I didn't care about myself after being dead but now that sounds good. Thanks for sharing.