Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust…
As with all things in nature, life is a cycle. Plants and flowers are born in spring, grow to their peak in summer, and slowly die come fall and winter. Unfortunately, unlike the beautiful perennials that may adorn your garden, humans only get one shot at their time on Earth…until now.
Straight out of Cinderella’s mother in Into the Woods, one startup is trying to change the way we look at death and make the world a better, greener place in the process. Their idea? Instead of graves, plant trees.
The catch? There are dead humans at the roots.
This company has redesigned the coffin with the belief that death “is not the end, but the beginning of a way back to nature.”
Source: Facebook @Capsula Mundi
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The Mission
Source: Facebook/ Capsula Mundi
According to their website, “Capsula Mundi is a cultural and broad-based project, which envisions a different approach to the way we think about death.”
The Creators
Source: capsulamundi.it
Capsula Mundi is the collaborative effort of Italian designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel, who are both dedicated to combining material and form with the “emotional impulse” behind a project. Bretzel also states his respect for ecological ethics, which he says mass production rarely respects.