Duhend
Seedling
Well I'm not sure if this is off topic, but it certainly has to do with bonsai at least how I'm looking at it.
Due to a very sudden issue with a family member I find that I will be at a funeral at the end of the week. As these things usually do, they get one to thinking about how they would want to be taken care of when the time comes. I decided long ago that I would be cremated, I don't see the point of casket in a concrete vault deep in the ground holding my leavings. I also know that Green burials" are becoming more common but I still don't see any point. I think that we take so much during our lives that I want to give back.
So along those lines, I'm sure some one somewhere on this forum may have asked this question, but I'd like my ashes to be used as something useful. So I ask can my ashes be used as a fertilizer for my bonsai? No embalming or course. I've looked around the internet and their are those that say yes and no. I'd like to think if I could give back to my plants that are teaching me so much about patience and relax me when I work on them, that I should.
Also I think in a way whoever gets the plant after me would get some of me as well. When they work on the plant I would be there with them. Course their is the ever present idea of them killing the plant. I mentioned the idea of giving the plants to friends and family to a friend once, and then got the mental image of her being heart broken for "killing me again". This poor girl couldn't figure out why all her plants died after she moved out, I of course told her that I had been watering and rotating them. So maybe she wouldn't get a plant...lol
So yes or no what do you think? Would you like the same if it is possible?
I'm still torn between this idea and the one where they mix your ashes and concrete to make artificial reefs. My girlfriend loves to make fun of me about that one. She thinks its silly since I've never even been to the ocean....
My my that was longer than expected!
Due to a very sudden issue with a family member I find that I will be at a funeral at the end of the week. As these things usually do, they get one to thinking about how they would want to be taken care of when the time comes. I decided long ago that I would be cremated, I don't see the point of casket in a concrete vault deep in the ground holding my leavings. I also know that Green burials" are becoming more common but I still don't see any point. I think that we take so much during our lives that I want to give back.
So along those lines, I'm sure some one somewhere on this forum may have asked this question, but I'd like my ashes to be used as something useful. So I ask can my ashes be used as a fertilizer for my bonsai? No embalming or course. I've looked around the internet and their are those that say yes and no. I'd like to think if I could give back to my plants that are teaching me so much about patience and relax me when I work on them, that I should.
Also I think in a way whoever gets the plant after me would get some of me as well. When they work on the plant I would be there with them. Course their is the ever present idea of them killing the plant. I mentioned the idea of giving the plants to friends and family to a friend once, and then got the mental image of her being heart broken for "killing me again". This poor girl couldn't figure out why all her plants died after she moved out, I of course told her that I had been watering and rotating them. So maybe she wouldn't get a plant...lol
So yes or no what do you think? Would you like the same if it is possible?
I'm still torn between this idea and the one where they mix your ashes and concrete to make artificial reefs. My girlfriend loves to make fun of me about that one. She thinks its silly since I've never even been to the ocean....
My my that was longer than expected!