From left to right: Anna's rose bush with the ashes of her grandmother planted within the roots, The Living Urn planting system. All photos courtesy of The Living Urn The Local newsletter is your free ...

When a family member dies, lasting memorials can offer distressed relatives some relief. For a number of years Barcelona-based Bios Urn has been producing biodegradable urns that use people's ashes to ...

In an attempt to make death a little less scary, startups in recent years have started expanding our alternative options to traditional burial rituals. For example, Bios Urn is a biodegradable urn ...

Biodegradable burial pods that contain cremated human remains turn bodies into trees. Rating: Context: Bodies don't go into the pods. Rather, cremated human remains are placed in the biodegradable, ...

None of us knows where we go after we die. But as overcrowded cities run out of real estate for cemeteries, interest in leaving a smaller footprint even in death grows. Designers have been ...

It’s official: you can now regrow your loved ones after they pass—into a tree that is. Bios Incube is the world’s first incubator system designed for the afterlife. Yep, you read that sentence right.

I have always wondered what it’s like to be a tree. “In my next life, if there is one, I want to be a tree,” I tweeted after a tree walk around UP Diliman. Trees are amazing, aren’t they? Good news ...

A company called Bios Urn finally has an answer to the question, "What happens when the circle of life gets a Wifi connection?" Meet the Bios Incube, a smartphone-connected planter that turns cremated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bodies don't go into the pods. Rather, cremated human remains are placed in the biodegradable, plastic-derived urns, and then ...