psytrance maybe…
Can one specify the type of mushroom that one turns into? Can I get a magic mushroom suit so I can literally get people to trip on my remains?
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Now It sounds like a book by Dr. Seuss.
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That’s the last ear worm that I will ever need.
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There’s something to be said for storing bodies for future reuse.
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On the other hand, animals die in the woods all of the time without causing big dieoffs. Nature seems to have figured it out.
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Because . . . layering, of course.
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That’s so metal.
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As a failed artist, I’d be cool with becoming paint if my whole Sith lord legacy doesn’t pan out.
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Who´s gonna fix it?
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Um, where are you going to be dropping bodies off for nature to handle them?
For example, human remains are one of many things making the Ganges River one of the most polluted in India.
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It’s downright chthonostrophobic.
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You may have to badger badger badger the bartender to get served in this joint.
I would lichen it to a pub on St. Patty’s day, there ain’t mush room to stand.
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And do we really gotta talk about pharmaceuticals as poisonous? Big Pharma aside, some folks need to take meds that keep them alive, like being able to live life with mental wellness, or keep your heart from stopping. I’m not poisoned or poisonous. Stigma, be gone!
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Naturally, he’ll top off his mushroom suit with a mushroom cap later on.
(tip o’ the cap)
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But (all jokes aside) we have to wonder if that is ecologically sustainable, too? I suspect that the vast majority of people get buried they way they do, not because they feel strongly one way or another, but because they don’t know there are options and they don’t feel comfortable dwelling on them. And there is some small subset who wants their bodies preserved so that they can come during the end times… which… weird…
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I agree. But that doesn’t mean they are all good for the environment, though, even if they help us live in a more healthy or happy manner. Or there are the case of drugs that really are poisonous (some cancer drugs for example). I certainly don’t want people to NOT take those drugs if it saves their lives! Nor do I want radioactive material leaching into the ground… I don’t think it’s a stigma to say that stuff we use regularly to improve our lives might not be great for the environment. You can say the same about various kinds of implants, too, such as batteries in older kinds of pace makers.
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Seems to me that you’d need a fly, beetle, nematode, and mite suit.
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Mushrooms are opportunistic saprophytes that produce proteolytic enzymes capable of digesting a wide variety of substrates, including dead animals. Keratin is a good example, if something can eat horn and nails, it’ll probably be able to eat the soft squishier proteins too. If they had a diverse enough population capable of thriving in a grave environment (which is the big “if”), they should be able to digest most dead animal sources, likely including Luke Perry.
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