Bodies don't go into the pods. Rather, cremated human remains are placed in the biodegradable, plastic-derived urns, and then those urns get covered in soil. After that, a pre-existing tree gets ...

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Take a trip to Riverside Memorial Park, and you may stumble upon a mulch path in a dense forest and wonder why there’s a hiking trail in the middle of a cemetery. Other than a few unmarked basalt ...

Bodies don't go into the pods. Rather, cremated human remains are placed in the biodegradable, plastic-derived urns, and then those urns get covered in soil. After that, a pre-existing tree gets ...