Capsula Mundi

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A burial concept by Italian designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel.

Egg shaped pods containing the deceased, buried beneath (and subsequently providing a nutrient source for) the tree of their choice. Such interments are illegal in Italy but Citelli and Bretzel are campaigning for a change in the law.

In fairness, if you can get key scenes from Invasion of The Bodysnatchers out of your head, there are worse ways to return to dust.

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20 thoughts on “Capsula Mundi

  1. Ms Piggy

    this is wonderful, I would love to be buried like that. I don’t suppose it’s legal here either, does anyone know?

  2. Spaghetti Hoop

    Hoop approves. Cemeteries are wasteful, dull and single-purposed tracts of land. This is a vibrant way to dispose of remains yet let nature take its course. Hope we can see this here soon.

  3. octo

    Great but I wouldn’t like to be the one digging the hole. What if the tree dies, because they do sometimes?

    1. Mick Flavin

      They put the tree in an egg, stick it in a bigger hole, then bury a live child to it’s waist in the soil over it.

  4. Kieran NYC

    Great idea. Would be considered as an option by a lot of people, I’d imagine.

    Trying to make it legal in Ireland would be like pushing one of those eggs up a treacle hill. Every moral issue requires a mandatory 30 years of inaction, followed by a few sympathetic horror stories in the media, 70% of the population in support, and THEN politicians will enact a half-way-house law that fudges the issue.

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