Sustainable till death do us part, and 45 days beyond; mushroom coffin a last best wish for some
For those seeking to live in the most sustainable way, there now is an afterlife too DELFT, Netherlands -- For those seeking to live in the most sustainable way, there now is an afterlife too. A Dutch intrepid inventor is now “growing” coffin s by putting mycelium, the root structure of mushroom s, together with hemp fiber in a special mold that, in a week, turns into what could basically be compared to the looks of an unpainted Egyptian sarcophagus. And while traditional wooden coffins come from trees that can take decades to grow and years to break down in the soil, the mushroom versions biodegrades and delivers the remains to nature in barely a month and a half. In our 21st century, when the individual spirit can increasingly thrive way beyond the strictures of yore, death and funerals are all so often still hemmed in by tradition that may fall far short of the vision of the deceased or their loved ones. “We all have different cultures and different ways of wanting to be buried in t...