in the long run we're all dead
(john keynes, economist)
i read this wee little article in this month's wired about new ways to dispose corpses. interesting stuff. one process is called freeze-drying by promessa, a swedish company. basically they freeze-dry you in liquid nitrogen, vibrate you into an organic powder, evaporate the water out of you, separate you from any metals (ie. mercury), then bury you under a bush or tree in a cornstarch coffin to become compost. the other way is tree bonding by biopresence, a british company. they take the sequence of a plant's dna, encode your dna into the plant gene, then introduce the new gene into the organism. interesting stuff indeed!
now you can, according to the article, "be the tree, feed the tree" :)
i read this wee little article in this month's wired about new ways to dispose corpses. interesting stuff. one process is called freeze-drying by promessa, a swedish company. basically they freeze-dry you in liquid nitrogen, vibrate you into an organic powder, evaporate the water out of you, separate you from any metals (ie. mercury), then bury you under a bush or tree in a cornstarch coffin to become compost. the other way is tree bonding by biopresence, a british company. they take the sequence of a plant's dna, encode your dna into the plant gene, then introduce the new gene into the organism. interesting stuff indeed!
now you can, according to the article, "be the tree, feed the tree" :)
posted by bacon at 9:32 a.m.
2 Comments:
I'm a little unclear on tis tree bonding thing... How does that actually "dispose" of your corpse?
maybe i should have rephrased it to, "ways you can take over the world after you die.."
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