Name: A burial practice that nourishes the planet
Uploaded: 2017-03-13T14:59:37Z
Duration: 11 min 44 s
Description: Here's a question we all have to answer sooner or later: What do you want to happen to your body when you die? Funeral director Caitlin Doughty explores new ways to prepare us for inevitable mortality. In this thoughtful talk, learn more about ideas for burial (like "recomposting" and "conservation burial") that return our bodies back to the earth in an eco-friendly, humble and self-aware way.

Here's a question we all have to answer sooner or later: What do you want to happen to your body when you die? Funeral director Caitlin Doughty explores new ways to prepare us for inevitable mortality. In this thoughtful talk, learn more about ideas for burial (like "recomposting" and "conservation burial") that return our bodies back to the earth in an eco-friendly, humble and self-aware way.

Caitlin Doughty: A burial practice that nourishes the planet

A burial practice that nourishes the planet

Reimagining death as a return to the earth, the concept of 'recomposition' transforms our bodies into soil, fueling life anew.

Conservation burial reframes the role of cemeteries, turning them into protected lands where our final rest nurtures nature's rebirth.

Embracing our mortality through eco-friendly burial practices can inspire a more humble and self-aware existence on our planet.

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