flesh-eating mushrooms ... yummy!

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/business/mushroom-suits-biodegradable-urns-and-deaths-green-frontier.html
Jae Rhim Lee wants you to be less squeamish about death, and she thinks a suit lined with flesh-eating mushrooms might do the trick.
A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ms. Lee has long been obsessed with how humans relate to their environment. She used her body as a test subject once before, adhering to a strict vegan diet to see if her urine could nourish plants. She grew cabbage that she then she made it into kimchi (see Project 1: Research )
 
More problems with dead people ... Muslims in Spain don’t want coffins, but local burial laws oblige
Spanish authorities are considering Islamic funerals incompatible with local laws that prohibit corpses being buried in direct contact with the soil.
This issue -- and the allocation of more cemeteries for the community -- has become imperative for the almost two million Muslims living in Spain.