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Latino Daily News

Tuesday May 24, 2011

Green Afterlife: Barcelona Designer Creates Urn That Turns Your Ashes Into a Tree

Green Afterlife: Barcelona Designer Creates Urn That Turns Your Ashes Into a Tree

Photo: Bios Urn

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“Bios Urn” is a project by Barcelona based Martín Azúa, designed to “reintegrate humans to the natural cycle of life,” after their own cycle, has ended.

The “Bios Urn” is a biodegradable funerary urn fabricated with coconut shell, compacted peat and cellulose; inside, it contains the seed of a tree, plant or bush.

Once your remains have been placed into the urn, it can be planted and then the seed germinates and begins to grow.  And if you would like you can be planted in your back yard and keep on ‘living’ only in a different form of life. 


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