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Biologist turns bodies into fertiliser for green burials

source: Annanova

 

A Swedish biologist has come up with the ultimate ecological burial - turning bodies into fertiliser.


Instead of burial or cremation, bodies are freeze-dried into about 30kgs of organic and nutritious powder.

Susanne Wiigh-Masak says her new method allows the dead to fertilise a plant of his or her choice.

The powder is placed in a box, buried and covered with topsoil, reports Aftonbladet.

The deceased's selected plant is then planted over the "coffin".


"The plant will then be fertilised by the deceased for many years. I want to be a white rhododendron," says Mrs. Wiigh-Masak.


The Swedish church has expressed their interest in the new method and feels it good to be able to offer an alternative and ecological method of burial.


Posted 10th January 2002

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

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