Designer Is Training Fungus Suit To Eat Her When She Dies. Yep.

We all imagine what’ll happen to us when we die. I want to be shot out of a cannon onto a mine field where I’ll (hopefully) explode into a million pieces of Former-Caffeine. Designer  Jae Rhim Lee wants fungus to eat her body, and she’s designed the  Infinity Burial Suit to help that happen.

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In an interview with New Scientist the artist described how she’s training the mushrooms to process her body.

The US government recently upgraded formaldehyde from a probable carcinogen to a known carcinogen, so by trying to preserve the body we poison the living […] I thought I could train a toxin-cleaning edible mushroom to eat my body. These mushrooms, which usually grow on wood and decaying material in the forest, can be trained to grow on pretty much any organic material and break it down. So I started collecting my hair, nails and skin so I could pick the best mushrooms to become Infinity Mushrooms, to recognise and eat my body after I die.

It’s certainly one way to go.