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Angela Symons

‘Transformation into life’: Your dead body could become ‘beautiful’ soil thanks to terramation

Kristoffer Hughes has spent 32 years working with the dead. And he thinks we've been doing it all wrong.

Treated as a “problem to be solved”, bodies are embalmed with formaldehyde to preserve their appearance, which leaches into the soil – “because God forbid that anybody should look dead, right?”

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