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With this proposal, Capsula Mundi creators try to turn the cemeteries in forests.
According to the Italian design company called Capsula Mundi, It has a perfect solution to convert forests memorial cemeteries. It is an ecological alternative to landscape level, avoiding the waste of resources typical of the sector for carrying caskets, becoming cold cemeteries in lush forests.
Its biodegradable capsules, as a coffin, They are intended to be fertilizer to feed countless trees. In this way, niches on floors and walls, with their marble tombstones, and the endless corridors, mausoleums and other traditional elements of the cemeteries would be replaced by a forest.
In particular, as proposed Capsula Mundi, the dead be buried within pods with a ready-made plastic starch obtained from millet or potatoes, together with seeds that would feed on the decomposition of the bodies.
each pod, Therefore, have a tree in power, over time, It would grow and expand the forest, making it a very special place, where you can go to remind people died in a friendlier environment than offered by the current cemeteries.
According to the company, pods would replace the wooden caskets from the moment of death, then the capsules may contain a human body for three days before burial.
[quote]The philosophy behind the project also seeks to raise awareness of wasteful cutting down a tree.[/quote]
As indicated on their website, tree takes between 10 and 40 years to grow, and when logging their use is often ephemeral. Therefore they propose to create forests that have dubbed "Memorials", in which people would be buried to achieve a beautiful communion that symbolize the value of life, and the importance of preserving.
From Capsula Mundi is recalled that the customs relating to burial will have to adapt to new needs, in the current context of overpopulation. We are more than 7 billion people, and the number is increasing, so the space to bury people need innovative solutions.
In this sense, the creators of these biodegradable pods reject cremation grounds that involves heavy use of energy.
However, in your opinion, pods allow the bodies back to their being, placed in the fetal position without applying formaldehyde or other toxins.
Simply placed in its sheath bio along with a seed tree, finally burying it in fertile soil, which may be or receive treatment in order to take advantage of abandoned land.
Much has to change mindsets for this proposal to take root and become a great and fascinating tree.