lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 day agoWhen you die, what do you want to be done with you?message-squaremessage-square157fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1110arrow-down1message-squareWhen you die, what do you want to be done with you?lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square157fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 hours agoIf you want to be a tree, go cremation. Trees get their carbon from the air not the soil.
minus-squarewebghost0101linkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 hours agoThats just carbon though. Surely the nutrients in the ground are equally important.
minus-squarelousyd@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoI thought cremains would be worse for the tree.
minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoThey are. I researched it because my mother wanted to grow a lemon tree from her cremains. Human ashes are too acidic for most plants to grow in unless you mix them with soil or compost. Which doesn’t seem at all respectful.
minus-squaredanafest@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoI believe they are mostly not even ashes, just ground up bone fragments
If you want to be a tree, go cremation. Trees get their carbon from the air not the soil.
Thats just carbon though. Surely the nutrients in the ground are equally important.
I thought cremains would be worse for the tree.
They are. I researched it because my mother wanted to grow a lemon tree from her cremains. Human ashes are too acidic for most plants to grow in unless you mix them with soil or compost. Which doesn’t seem at all respectful.
I believe they are mostly not even ashes, just ground up bone fragments