alkaline hydrolysis

So, they dump the body into lye. Like some killers do in movies.

…I actually like the idea. Specially if can choose where all that liquid fertiliser (formerly my body) will go. My family already knows some shit I want them to do regarding my body, once I kick the bucket, and “dump the fluids under an Araucaria pine” would be just another.

Took a second to understand why it’s called “leaf cremation” since it involves neither leaves nor fire, and the article doesn’t explicitly say, but wow that’s pretty cool. Leaf cremation referring to the fact that all of “you” ends up in the leaves of a plant pretty quickly. That’s what I would like for myself for sure. Really beautiful.

All the images on this article are ai generated by whisk and the entire premise sounds like it’s made up