These startups want to kill the coffin | Fusion
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The Capsula Mundi burial project by Italian designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel combines the idea of human composting with that of a burial suit. Citelli and Bretzel are creating “seeds” or pods that will hold the body in fetal position, where it will be buried underneath a newly planted tree.
They told me over email that they landed on this idea after asking themselves why design cannot help humanity better approach the issue of death.
“We decided to dedicate our work to overcoming a major taboo in our society: the coffin,” they wrote in an email.
They noted how in some countries, such as England, the funeral industry has already changed as green cemeteries have become increasingly popular, thus offering “a wide variety of natural burials.”
“Death is not only a physical event, it is a physiological experience and we are convinced that people feel the need to reconnect themselves with death,” they wrote. “There is no obstruction, deprivation or annihilation from death. We return to the earth and the earth will always generate new forms of life.”