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.
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?