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 ...

Two Italian designers are bringing a new meaning to "family tree." Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel proposed a plan to make cemeteries more eco-friendly by replacing headstones with trees. It's called ...

NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - Coffins and cremations are so 2015. Designers in Italy have developed an egg-shaped burial pod which biodegrades and transforms the body of the deceased into a tree. Sound weird?

With over 7 billion people on the planet, all of whom have an expiration date, outdated modes of burial really have to be revisited. There just isn’t enough space to accommodate the remains of an ever ...

New York: A team of Italian designers have devised the concept of a biodegradable burial pod that will turn human remains into nutrients for a tree. Designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel have ...

For a few years, I worked as an assistant to a woman who owned a number of funeral homes, so I'm pretty well versed with funeral-speak. Jealous? While most people use the word coffin, it's actually ...