How to become a tree

Many people today want to commit their remains to rejuvenating the planet. But are these green deaths just greenwashing?

Read more in Dying to be green: are new eco funerals a false promise? | Aeon Essays

Written by

Hannah Gould – Senior lecturer in Buddhist Studies at the the University of Melbourne in Australia. A cultural anthropologist working in the areas of religion, technology, and death, she also works with the DeathTech Research Team

Georgina Robinson – a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Theology and Religion and the Centre for Death-Life Studies at Durham University in the UK. Her research interests are primarily grounded in the interdisciplinary field of death studies.