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sl8

(13,720 posts) Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:04 AM Sep 2020

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/09/a-growing-business-dutch-develop-live-coffin-made-of-mushroom-mycelium/

A growing business: Dutch develop ‘living’ coffin made of mushroom mycelium

September 14, 2020

Dutch designers are claiming a world first with a funeral in which the deceased person was buried in a moss-filled coffin made of mycelium: the underground fungal network of mushrooms.

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Still rather be cremated jimfields33 Sep 2020 #1

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1. Still rather be cremated

Tue Sep 15, 2020, 10:39 AM

Sep 2020

Glad they are finding other ways to bury environmentally, but I’m so glad cremations are allowed and actually getting popular.