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| Biologist turns bodies into fertiliser for green burials 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's good to be able to offer an alternative and ecological method of burial. 9th January 2002 |
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