GROW A TREE FROM GRANDMA’S ASHES ON YOUR PORCH

A Spanish company has designed a cremation urn that grows a tree. Instead of planting your grandmother in a cemetery, now it’s possible to watch her ashes turn into a tree on your balcony. The Bios Urn, made from coconut shells, compacted peat, and cellulose, holds a person’s ashes along with a seed for a tree. As the urn decomposes, the tree roots take up the ashes. Though the urn can be planted in the ground like a regular tree, the designers realized that city-dwellers do not have access to land, so they designed a pot that can go on your balcony. Called the Incube, it fits on your balcony or deck, and the biodegradable urn fits inside the Incube. It also comes with a small kit of sensors that measure moisture, temperature, and sunlight, as well as an automatic watering system to keep the tree alive. The designers are raising funds for manufacturing on Kickstarter.
* And then the cat decides to use the pot as a litter box. No thank you.
* I suppose if you can grow a tree in it, you can grow anything in it, like maybe a pot plant DIBS ON THE IDEA!!!
* Explain to me again why I can’t just dump the ashes and some potting soil into a five-dollar planter from Wal-Mart?
* Tell the designers to bend over – I’ll give them a kickstart.
* “Honey, did you remember to water Grandma?”
* When the tree sheds its leaves, wouldn’t you be losing some of Grandma?
* Eventually, ladies can tell their husbands, “You know, your mother was a real beech.”
* Lets hope you have better luck keeping this alive than you did with grandma.
* How about if your grandpa was really frisky? What better way to honor him than to turn him into permanent wood?
* Sensors that measure the tree’s vital signs? Oh, I see. That’s where they stick you with bill.
* Why not throw some flashing lights on the damn thing too?