THE MUSHROOM BURIAL SHROUD that covered Luke Perry’s face and famous forehead was black as night, or perhaps it was white as bone, made of organic cotton,
Dying can be hard on the environment. If you re buried, you re going to be pumped full of litres of toxic embalming fluid, which will soon leach out of your corpse and then out of your casket, which will most likely be stored for posterity in a cemetery that uses tons of pesticides and astronomical amounts of water to keep it looking nice. If you re cremated, your body will be incinerated in an oven for between three and four hours at temperatures of around 982 degrees Celsius. It takes about 105 litres of fuel to incinerate a single human body, and the process releases carbon monoxide, soot and even mercury from dental fillings into the air.