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A mushroom casket marks a first for ‘green burials’ in the US (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This has been available in Washington for a few years now.

[–] chloyster@beehaw.org 5 points 4 days ago

Unless there is something new I am unsure about the WA one is a little different in that I believe you take a body to a facility that does the decomposing and then you can choose what to do with it. While this is a body put into a mushroom casket and buried for the body to decompose in a few years