lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhen you die, what do you want to be done with you?message-squaremessage-square166fedilinkarrow-up1127arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1122arrow-down1message-squareWhen you die, what do you want to be done with you?lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square166fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoIf you want to be a tree, go cremation. Trees get their carbon from the air not the soil.
minus-squarelousyd@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI thought cremains would be worse for the tree.
minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year 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-up2·1 year agoI believe they are mostly not even ashes, just ground up bone fragments
minus-squarewebghost0101@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThats just carbon though. Surely the nutrients in the ground are equally important.
If you want to be a tree, go cremation. Trees get their carbon from the air not the soil.
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
Thats just carbon though. Surely the nutrients in the ground are equally important.