Italian designers have developed an egg-shaped pod similar to a coffin that lets the deceased support new life after their own death. Developers have dubbed the Capsula Mundi an environmentally ...

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?

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Italian designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel have created an eco-friendly way to dispose of dead bodies in the form of burial pods. Fox 11 reported that the burial pods, called Capsula Mundi, are ...