Bodies don't go into the pods. Rather, cremated human remains are placed in the biodegradable, plastic-derived urns, and then those urns get covered in soil. After that, a pre-existing tree gets ...

Italian designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel have created an eco-friendly way to dispose of dead bodies in the form of burial pods. Fox 11 reported that the burial pods, called Capsula Mundi, are ...

For a few years, I worked as an assistant to a woman who owned a number of funeral homes, so I'm pretty well versed with funeral-speak. Jealous? While most people use the word coffin, it's actually ...

Two Italian designers are bringing a new meaning to "family tree." Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel proposed a plan to make cemeteries more eco-friendly by replacing headstones with trees. It's called ...

With over 7 billion people on the planet, all of whom have an expiration date, outdated modes of burial really have to be revisited. There just isn’t enough space to accommodate the remains of an ever ...

It's a familiar conversation in our house. When my husband dies, he wants to be cremated, with his ashes scattered in beloved locations ranging from the river behind our house to national parks ...

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A pair of designers have created the concept of a burial pod -- a more environmentally sound alternative to coffins. Courtesy of Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel There’s no denying it: Burying bodies is ...

Modern burial practices are an environmental nightmare. Toxic chemicals from the embalming process leach into the air and soil. Caskets and burial vaults use a ton of materials. And memorial parks ...

Italian designers have developed an egg-shaped pod similar to a coffin that lets the deceased support new life after their own death. Developers have dubbed the Capsula Mundi an environmentally ...

NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - Coffins and cremations are so 2015. Designers in Italy have developed an egg-shaped burial pod which biodegrades and transforms the body of the deceased into a tree. Sound weird?