• Sergio@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    Wait really? I wanted to be tied to a young tree and have my skeleton be merged with it:

    The Moriori people of the Chatham Islands placed their dead in a sitting position … strapped to young trees in the forest. In time, the tree grew into and through the bones, making them one.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excarnation

    I was kind of hoping my descendents would be able to find the tree and see my skull staring out at them from halfway inside a tree. Are you saying this won’t work?

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      3 days ago

      If the conditions are right it can work. But there is a reason we aren’t tripping over the bones of billions of people and animals.