Dear Suze Q, Our crazy old aunt is dying and wants to be buried with her cats. She’s a simple woman, born during the Dust Bowl drought of 1940, except that she smoked dope and dropped psilocybin before it was popular. She is a hoot and deserves a good, earthly send off. Any suggestions besides a lethal cocktail death party (which she's already planned)?
Dearly Remaining, Consider a "mushroom coffin,” grown from mycelium, the dense, woven root network of fungi/mushrooms, that decomposes in a month or so, returns the body to the earth where it is converts and enriches the surrounding soil to support new plant growth. If this isn't esoteric enough, add a mushroom burial suit eliminating the need for a casket, where Auntie is surrounded by a biodegradable garment embedded with mushroom spores. (Made popular by actor Luke Perry in 2019). OR... "aquamation" (legal in about 1/2 of US states, a green burial alternative to "flame cremation" -who thinks up these hideous terms); or "tree pod burial" a revised ancient method where the body is placed in a pod that nourishes a tree planted above it. Check local and state laws about Auntie’s cats. Ash to grass, Dust Bowl to hash bowl. -SQ
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