How would you like to grow into a tree after you die?

[Playinghardball]

This is a Bios Urn, a completely biodegradable urn that contains a single tree seed. When planted, the tree seed is nourished by and absorbs the nutrients from the ashes. The urn itself is made from coconut shell and contains compacted peat and cellulose. The ashes are mixed with this, and the seed placed inside. You can even choose which type of tree you'd like to grow!

More info, & some other sciencey options for your remains: http://bit.ly/1eLy8bh

[uppityperson]

1. Very much so. Thanks for the link, need to check it out.

[freshwest]

2. Wish I'd heard of this earlier. At present, scheduled to go into a columbarium. Yup, communism!

My desire was to be buried in an old growth wilderness area and get back to my roots. Since my teens, I wanted to do the wild animal routine, but loved ones seem determined to have a place to go and discuss the matter of my death. We don't get much say about such things afterward, LOL.

[HereSince1628]

10. I couldn't do that, I've avoided groups all my life.

I wouldn't want to spend a hundred years with the same people, or them with me.

[Orsino]

3. When you see a mighty tree sprout and spread beautiful leaves over a peaceful little plot...

...that'll be me yelling, "God damn it, I didn't want to die!"

[Blue Owl]

4. John Boehner would make a great weeping willow

n/t

[KansDem]

15. Or an orange tree...

[snooper2]

5. That seems more practical then wasting perfectly good land

for graves

[oldandhappy]

6. Looked this up. Copied. Sent to the two who will be making the decisions!

What a super idea. I love it. I want to fertilize a tree!! Yippee. Grand idea.

[B2G]

7. Live Oak for me please. nt

[Philly Cowboy]

8. My chance to really become a nut.

Been call one all my life, so why not become one. But what type, Hickory, Black Walnut, or an Acorn?

[Mariana]

13. A chestnut!

It may be a little to early for this right now, but they've been breeding blight-resistant chestnuts. Some have been planted right near where I live, because they can be sure of exposure - there are lots of blighted chestnuts around here.

[CrispyQ]

36. Almond, obviously.

"Sometimes you feel like a nut..."


on edit: Welcome to DU!

[AleksS]

56. I met an almond farmer once

I met an almond farmer once, and he kept telling me about his amond groves. Amond this, amond that. How he loved amonds. How his family had been in amonds for generations. He kept talking about all the uses of amonds--amond paste, amond candy, roasted amonds. He was a bank of amond trivia.

I thought he just had a funny accent, until he explained how the nuts are harvested.

It turns out when the nuts are ready, to fall from the trees.............


you just shake the "l" out of them.

[CrispyQ]

57. Cute.

[KansDem]

9. What a "tree-mendous" idea!

Thanks for posting!

[Kber]

44. Oof!

[Ms. Toad]

11. My grandparents' ashes fed a blue spruce in our yard.

First my grandfather, then later my grandmother's ashes were spread there as well. (After both of their bodies were donated to the University where my grandfather taught, used fully, then cremated.)

[truedelphi]

22. Thanks for relating that story - and

It gives new meaning to the expression "All spruced up but no where to go!"

[Ms. Toad]

45. :)

[yawnmaster]

12. I want to become my kids...

so I'm going to have them sprinkle me over their food for a few months when the time comes.

No, seriously, the tree one is a nice idea.

[user_name]

14. Gross!

I'm going to tell my son!

[truebluegreen]

42. Just have 'em dig you into the vegetable patch.

[yawnmaster]

61. But then who knows what else may have me! gophers, squirrels, birds...

I feel my kids may not be getting the full benefit

[truebluegreen]

68. Circle of Life, baby...we need to give back.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. That is so very awesome.

We've got pets buried all over our property. I think I might like it, too, especially if I could be a tree.

[pennylane100]

17. I think I would like to be a fruit bearing tree,

so that people would benefit from it. Not sure which one though.

[Aerows]

18. I'd like to be a vegetable garden

All the Republicans in this world could eat me.

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. I'm thinking Kudzu, or maybe English Ivy, but that's just me.

Being from the south, everyone knows when the last cockroach expires, it'll be under a Kudzu leaf.

[Aerows]

20. LOL

and it will still keep growing for centuries on that last cockroaches body.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

21. Very good idea. Really good if it could be planted in a national park. nt

[roody]

23. How green is cremation?

I plan to be buried in a green burial ground.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. Do I have to wait until I'm dead?

[DireStrike]

25. I'd rather give my body to science and medicine. -nt-

[Sheldon Cooper]

53. They still have to dispose of you once they're done experimenting.

[onethatcares]

26. I think that I shall never see

a tree as beautiful as me.

This makes a whole lot more sense than being spread over the oceans or put in the cold dark dirt in toto.

I think I want to be a Sequoia.

don't get me wrong about being scattered about, but I've been that way all my life and want to put down some deep roots.

[Jgarrick]

27. I'd prefer to be a diamond.

http://www.lifegem.com/

[pipi_k]

33. I wouldn't mind

being both.

A tree and a diamond.

Assuming there would be enough of me to be both, that is.

[FSogol]

28. Isn't that what happened to people who committed suicide in Dante's "Inferno"

They were condemned to the middle ring of the 7th Circle of Hell!

[Drew Richards]

29. Id rather be buried naked 6 ft down and a giant red wood sapling planted on top of me...more

Nutrients for my baby...

[LWolf]

30. Make it ashes and a Sequoia, and I'd like that, too.

[LWolf]

31. Unless they are going to be planted in a managed tree preserve,

it's probably not likely that all those seeds will sprout and survive to adult tree hood.

Still, it's a good idea. Instead of cemeteries, we could have managed forests grown out of the 7+billion humans that are going to die and have to be processed in some way.

It would be a second choice for me; I'd rather my ashes be scattered on the wind, to spread out across the world and leave no trace of me behind for others to analyze and study.

[mindwalker_i]

32. Talk about having a woody

It could put viagra out of business.

[petronius]

34. That's cool, but personally I want a sea burial - no cremating, embalming,

or anything else, just over the side and straight into the drink:

...with a yo-heave-ho! and a fare-ye-well
And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell.
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell...

[CrispyQ]

35. I'd do it. "Speaker For the Dead" comes to mind.

One of my fave sci fi stories. I know, I know, it's Card, but what a great story.

[Bonhomme Richard]

37. Why do I have this image of…….

dogs pissing on me.

[Kablooie]

38. Trouble it that I'd probably turn into Charlie Brown's Christmas tree.

[frylock]

39. that's my plan

[scarletwoman]

40. Seems a bit more complicated than necessary.

I've already made my post-death wishes known to my family. Cremate the body I've left behind, dig a hole in a location of their choosing, dump the ashes in, and set a Norway Pine seedling into the hole.

I'll of course leave a bequest to cover the cost of obtaining a Norway Pine seedling.

[truebluegreen]

41. Bristlecone Pine for me...at a high elevation.

[edbermac]

43. Nah, it might freak people out.

[Prophet 451]

46. I have it in my will

My will states that I am to be buried and an English Oak is to be planted on my grave.

[LadyHawkAZ]

47. I put this in my paperwork as what I want done with my ashes

a couple years ago.

[Contrary1]

48. Thanks for posting this...

My daughter and son-in-law recently mentioned wanting to do something special with their twin daughters' ashes.

This would be a lovely gesture. Picking the best location might be difficult, as they would want to watch the tree grow.

[Enthusiast]

49. Some Republican timber company would just come by and cut your tree down.

I kid. Maybe not.

I think this is a great idea.

Why would you want to lock your essence away in a metal box.

Reunite with nature from whence you came.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

[LostOne4Ever]

50. As a wanna be artist.....I think I want to be 250+ pencils

http://painting.about.com/b/2007/04/13/turn-yourself-into-a-pencil-after-you-die.htm

I would be drawing long after I die!

[pipi_k]

59. The life

of a pencil isn't an easy one, though...


Every so often you're stuck into a small machine that will eventually grind you down to a tiny nub.

And imagine the indignity of belonging to a kid...putting teeth marks up and down your length. Biting on your ass (the eraser) and even using your ass to clean wax out of his ears. Or up his nose with your other pencil self to create a goofy face for his classmates.

Some pencils go to artists...

Some go to ten year old boys...

[madokie]

51. This is the instructions for what to do with my butt when I die

cremate my stinking ass then pick a spot and dig a hole put the ashes in and plant a sycamore tree in the hole and cover it all up. I'll need a place for my spirit to rest in the after life and a sycamore is a fast growing and pretty tree so It'll give me that limb to sit on and rest.
seriously that is my instruction to my family.

http://www.2020site.org/trees/sycamore.html

Sorry but I don't believe in heaven and hell but I do feel I've lived before and will live again. I had these feelings long before I was old enough to know about the bible and all that. I can remember back to within days of when I was born. Google it and there are others who are like me who can remember all the way back to birth

[Sheldon Cooper]

54. Fascinating.

I also believe that we've all been here before and most of us are coming back again.

[yawnmaster]

62. wait...where do they put the rest of your ashes??? eom

[madokie]

63. Hell I'm all stinking ass

LOL

[yawnmaster]

64. I really did enjoy the imagery of your first line regarding...

burying your ass and then putting a tree in the hole!

I also like the entire thought, too.

[madokie]

69. The first time I read about this

I liked it so well that I gave instructions to my family as to what to do with me when I do die. I like the thought that maybe my ashes could help to nurture a tree, especially a Sycamore tree. Just something about a Sycamore tree that I like and always have. May have something to do with the fact they stand out in a hard wood forest.

The thought that anyone would want to put my body in a box and bury it does not appeal to me at all. Taking up a space of about 3 feet by 6 feet for a long time to me is wrong.

[hobbit709]

52. My ashes will be scattered over a marijuana field.

[Godhumor]

55. There is a chapter on this in the book "Stiff"

I think it sounds like a neat idea.

[Tom Ripley]

58. I have already planned to do so

[ellenfl]

60. i may have to change my plan to have my body interred in a dumpster. eom

[Islandurp]

65. honestly

I want my body to be shot into space.

[lumberjack_jeff]

66. We all do, eventually. n/t

[ChisolmTrailDem]

67. I love this! My mother passed away suddenly in October...

...and we buried her in our private family cemetery. The cemetery is in a forest in eastern N. Carolina and mom's instructions for when she was gone was always to be buried beneath the lowest branch of a tree that has matured beside the resting place of her father, whom I never knew because he died when I was very young. Back when grandpa died, the aforementioned tree wasn't much more than a yearling, but has grown into a mighty hickory. Mom needed to be cremated, to make it happen as she wished, due to room.

I personally dug the hole myself and placed her urn among the roots of that tree. It was an honor to do so and, though mom is not in direct contact with that tree, I like to think that she shines through it's leaves and branches.