In this day and age, many people in the western world are looking towards new and ecologically friendly ways to cope with the death of a human, predominantly due to the lack of space for burial grounds. One company called My Living Reef (http://mylivingreef.com/) have set up a scientifically engineered reef so that cremated people may be at rest under the sea. Woodland burials are also becoming more popular, Breach Farm (http://www.breachfarmwoodlandburialground.co.uk/) in Andover provide a a plot of land where one is to be buried and a tree is planted instead of a gravestone. These Woodland parks allow and encourage people to conjugate, play music and talk about past memories of their loved ones, eliminating the somber feel of traditional graveyards.
This began a reel of thought stemming towards whether or not our bodies could provide materials that could be used in everyday life, and if so how could they be used in order to create a memory? providing a sense of closure to our loved ones. What are the elements in the human body, how would they be extracted and how could they be used? Whether or not it is possible to use the substances to create new compounds.
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