Life After Death? Maybe as a Tree

Whether you want to be buried or cremated, critics see two major problems with our modern burial process: We're running out of space for our billions of remains, and we're polluting the planet in the process. 

Inhabitat, for instance, calls modern burial downright "toxic." But a new company in Barcelona has launched the Bios Urn, a $150 biodegradable urn that stores a loved one's ashes below a seed in soil and transforms those remains into a tree, reports Quartz.

 It notes that a cemetery in Quebec has become the first to dedicate space to trees from the urns. And in Vermont's Green Mountains, one man's remains sprouted an oak tree, which his son says would have been "a dream come true" for his dad.

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