lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 天前When you die, what do you want to be done with you?message-squaremessage-square164fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1116arrow-down1message-squareWhen you die, what do you want to be done with you?lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 天前message-square164fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 天前If 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 天前I thought cremains would be worse for the tree.
minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·23 小时前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.
minus-squaredanafest@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·21 小时前I believe they are mostly not even ashes, just ground up bone fragments
minus-squarewebghost0101@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·23 小时前Thats 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.