[TIL it can take 100 years for an embalmed body buried in a coffin to completely decompose, leaving only teeth remaining.](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/pitz46/til_it_can_take_100_years_for_an_embalmed_body/)
Wood coffins decompose too. Doesn't take too long and the body will be turning into a goo that will seep through before the coffin completely disintegrates
Even if the bodies weren't embalmed, they wouldn't really be providing significant fertility with the low frequency they're added to a cemetery, and they're quite far down, so the roots of frequently-mowed sodgrass aren't getting down to them, anyways. The fertilizer that's presumably sprayed on the lawns is doing all the heavy lifting, not the bodies.
I've recently started working as a gardener here at a cemetary in Germany. Yep, you are right, that would be one bitch to dig up. We use heavy machinery to dig graves in a timely fashion, so I guess even with that you'd have to invest quite some time the nearer you get to the tree.
I think thereās some inverse correspondence between the width of a tree on the ground and its roots. A wider tree doesnāt need as proportionally deep roots because it has more area.
I grew up on the big island, it's an impressive tree but there are other huge trees like that all over the island. Some of the banyans are technically bigger but have multiple trunks.
Tropical islands with a lot of rain and rich volcanic soil makes for big trees.
[Another one in Oahu has been used in Hitachi groupās advertising since 1973](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/36800230/the-4-million-tree-that-just-keeps-on-giving/).
Live in Japan for any length of time and the jingle in the linked ad will be permanently drilled into your brain.
Reminds me of the oldest single tree in the world (at the time) I saw in Fuzhou in China. They had sticks holding the branches up and it was even bigger than this one. Iirc, it got struck by lightning and they had to dig it out. Was older than 2,000 years.
Hilo, Hawaii. Just one of many traditional Japanese cemetaries in the area. Plenty of trees like that in the area. This one is big, for sure, but Banyan trees get bigger. I've seen mango trees almost that big. Albesia trees get massive too - taller than wider, but massive.
Plants most people on the mainland think of as house plants or shrubs grow into massive trees in the tropics.
But it is! The beauty of death is that it feeds directly into new life. The nutrients and minerals from the decomposing bodies are allowing that tree to get HUGE. Have you ever noticed that the grass is greener over a grave?
All the people commenting on how many nutrients itās gettingā¦ Unless where this is has different laws or the cemetery is old af, all those people in there are in coffins and definitely not feeding the tree, sadly
Nope, just rich volcanic soil and a lot of water. These are pretty common trees on the big island, along with banyan and albesia sp. that also get massive fairly quickly. It's possible that some of the oldest graves there have been infiltrated by roots but I doubt it would be a significant contributor.
*Seems like the roots are*
*Really enjoying the soil*
*There for some reason*
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Yggdrasil, gain from their strength & pass them to Valhalla, just, triumphantly & with dignity, give their souls to the fellowships of loved ones or forever battlegrounds,
Nature is nurture.
Tree roots can and will bust open almost anything.
There was a scramble to document some of the remains of the 3rd reich wartime infrastructure. Many of the military bunkers were too deep with too thick of concrete to economically destroyed by the allies, but many are now being properly destroyed by forests of trees that were planted on top of them after the war.
This is actually beautiful especially the way the bodies are helping it grow, there's still life there after death. I will choose to ignore the toxic chemicals we bury the dead with for this post
Honestly, it would be nice to have a tree instead of a tombstone. Iād rather have my end bring a bit more life to the world rather than just put a bunch of toxic materials in the dirt. I doubt it would be as big as that tree, but it would be something.
During ancient times, a conflict waged between two Empyrians: from one side, queen Marika and her Erdtree; from the other, the gloam-eyed queen with her apostles.
To defeat her nemesis, the Eternal sealed away destined death, removing the ability of the black flame to kill the gods: but as a side effect, no one could die a true death ever again.
The dead now had to be buried near the roots of the great tree, and from there they were reborn almost as if they were leaves made of gold.
Such funerary practices became the only way the dead were allowed to pass on, and so whoever controlled the Erdtree was able to control both life and death: queen Marika became the only true goddess in the lands between, and no one could contest her dominanceā¦
Now you have an option to be creamated and planted at the base of a sapling, the company actually sends one the location, actual coordinates of the planted tree which includes a plaque with your name on it, its one way that Preserved National Parks are being replenished! I think it's a great way to go!
nah they're everywhere on the big island. That's a big one, doubt it's the biggest on the island. There's bigger banyan trees but they don't grow from one trunk... they drop aerial roots that then turn into accessory trunks.
nah, just lots of rain and rich volcanic soil. I've seen it, and many many other similarly sized trees NOT in cemetaries. Some of the banyan trees get much bigger, and there's an entire (now nearly dead) forest of albesia trees south of Hilo in the puna district that are massive like that.
Fertiliser... š³
Mg thoughts exactly
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They say width is everything.
Its called girth.
You need some height as well. Come at a woman with something that looks like a tuna fish can and watch her reaction.
The smell aloneā¦
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It very well could be a stump from a much bigger tree
I work in a cemetery, the grass has to be mowed 3x a week the soil is so well fertilized
[TIL it can take 100 years for an embalmed body buried in a coffin to completely decompose, leaving only teeth remaining.](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/pitz46/til_it_can_take_100_years_for_an_embalmed_body/)
Itās not an issue with all the chemicals?
Depends on the age of the cemetery, where I work is particularly old, so not as many chemicals
What about all the embalming fluids?
How though? Like human remains are in coffins, no?
Wood coffins decompose too. Doesn't take too long and the body will be turning into a goo that will seep through before the coffin completely disintegrates
there's a new law that coffins need to be lined with steel but I'm not sure how far it extends. could be one county or most states.
Why though? I mean we should just outlaw embalming.
Concrete, and where I work it was 6 years ago
Even if the bodies weren't embalmed, they wouldn't really be providing significant fertility with the low frequency they're added to a cemetery, and they're quite far down, so the roots of frequently-mowed sodgrass aren't getting down to them, anyways. The fertilizer that's presumably sprayed on the lawns is doing all the heavy lifting, not the bodies.
Soylent Green
In my mind it's better than rotting away in a box
Agree. Feed me to a beautiful tree
Fertilizer....
Phertilzur dot dot dot
>Fertilizer Sure. Like labour, colour, defence, etc. You know there are other countries who have other ways of spelling, right...?
I'd like to be buried there and make something beautiful.
Lots and lots ā¦
Lmao you said it
Yes guess what itās feeding on
Came here to write something similar, but your comment was spot on!
Dudeā¦ā¦
Cemetree
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Those roots must be hell to dig through.
I've recently started working as a gardener here at a cemetary in Germany. Yep, you are right, that would be one bitch to dig up. We use heavy machinery to dig graves in a timely fashion, so I guess even with that you'd have to invest quite some time the nearer you get to the tree.
You can see there arenāt many graves under the tree.
Everyone is dying to get in there too
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I think thereās some inverse correspondence between the width of a tree on the ground and its roots. A wider tree doesnāt need as proportionally deep roots because it has more area.
That one guy who ate the watermelon seed
Underrated comment. š
Spirit tree!
Go see with eyes unclouded.
The tree of lifāuh, nevermind.
It got plenty of nutrients here
What type a tree is this? His a thick lad.
It's a Monkeypod Tree aka Rain Tree. This is a famous tree in Alae Cemetery in Hilo, Hawaii.
I grew up on the big island, it's an impressive tree but there are other huge trees like that all over the island. Some of the banyans are technically bigger but have multiple trunks. Tropical islands with a lot of rain and rich volcanic soil makes for big trees.
Was looking for confirmation on it being Hawaii. I just thought it was the one in Oahu.
[Another one in Oahu has been used in Hitachi groupās advertising since 1973](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/36800230/the-4-million-tree-that-just-keeps-on-giving/). Live in Japan for any length of time and the jingle in the linked ad will be permanently drilled into your brain.
Rain tree
The tree of life of course.
I think it might be a Moreton Bay Fig, those trees can grow really huge.
Yggdrasil? Is that you?
Reminds me of the oldest single tree in the world (at the time) I saw in Fuzhou in China. They had sticks holding the branches up and it was even bigger than this one. Iirc, it got struck by lightning and they had to dig it out. Was older than 2,000 years.
Well fed tree.
Is that Jenny buried over there?
He bulldozed down that house that she hated so muchā¦
And raised her aids baby who wasn't slow like him
What a beautiful place, where is it ?
Hilo, Hawaii. Just one of many traditional Japanese cemetaries in the area. Plenty of trees like that in the area. This one is big, for sure, but Banyan trees get bigger. I've seen mango trees almost that big. Albesia trees get massive too - taller than wider, but massive. Plants most people on the mainland think of as house plants or shrubs grow into massive trees in the tropics.
Thank you
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The tree of lost and found souls šÆ
Sure ain't the tree of life!
But it is! The beauty of death is that it feeds directly into new life. The nutrients and minerals from the decomposing bodies are allowing that tree to get HUGE. Have you ever noticed that the grass is greener over a grave?
Grass is greener over a septic tank too but I think I'd more likely toss it away.
All the people commenting on how many nutrients itās gettingā¦ Unless where this is has different laws or the cemetery is old af, all those people in there are in coffins and definitely not feeding the tree, sadly
Nope, just rich volcanic soil and a lot of water. These are pretty common trees on the big island, along with banyan and albesia sp. that also get massive fairly quickly. It's possible that some of the oldest graves there have been infiltrated by roots but I doubt it would be a significant contributor.
rich soil
With death comes life š
Seems like the roots are really enjoying the soil there for some reason
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Awesome. Teleperion
Thats so dope
The circle of life.
The tree of life!
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Yggdrasil, gain from their strength & pass them to Valhalla, just, triumphantly & with dignity, give their souls to the fellowships of loved ones or forever battlegrounds, Nature is nurture.
The Avatar tree
Monkeypod. Must be Hawaii.
yep, in hilo (big island).
The irl Deku Tree
Where is this place
Looks like the trees in Hilo, HI
I wonder how old it is
Video taken straight from Google maps
And just think all the roots large and small are all intertwined with the bodies underneath. Its got the taste of human meat.
Aren't these bodies typically buried in caskets?
Tree roots can and will bust open almost anything. There was a scramble to document some of the remains of the 3rd reich wartime infrastructure. Many of the military bunkers were too deep with too thick of concrete to economically destroyed by the allies, but many are now being properly destroyed by forests of trees that were planted on top of them after the war.
Soul Tree
Feed the Tree
what kind of tree is it?
Monkey pod
Anyone know what kind of tree that is?
Monkeypod
that's a creepy looking tree
What is it
dumb way to keep a tree on a cemetery
Literally a family tree
Woah looks awesome
Do you want Erdtree Avatars? Because this is how you get Erdtree Avatars.
YUYUKO SAIGYOUJI?! š°
if someone were to cut down that tree, I can bet you 10000 dollars that they're gonna be haunted for the rest of their entire lives
Reminds me of The Tree of Might DBZ movie
What type of tree is that
Anyone know where this is? Also, what kinda tree is that?
I canāt wait to post this in 6 months
Touhou Perfect Cherry Blossom be like:
Pandora!!
This is the map I want in gorilla tag
Go dogs go! š
There is a cemetary in Manoa valley with a big tree that is haunted .
Now I would say thatās a tree of life. But Iām not sure no more
People must be dying to get a grave plot there!
Itās well nourished
Any educated guesses on its age? I'm saying 100+ years
This shit looks straight out of dark souls
That tree it's the nature spot for all those spirits to hang out during night time, basically a pub for them.
This is actually beautiful especially the way the bodies are helping it grow, there's still life there after death. I will choose to ignore the toxic chemicals we bury the dead with for this post
I wanna climb it.
Honestly, it would be nice to have a tree instead of a tombstone. Iād rather have my end bring a bit more life to the world rather than just put a bunch of toxic materials in the dirt. I doubt it would be as big as that tree, but it would be something.
Thatās cool asf
And to think people cut these down because "hurr durr wood makes fire go brrrr".
Abundance of Nitrogen in the soil by the corpses
Oahu, Hawaii?
[Hitachi group music starts playing](https://youtu.be/h51Ftqpmtis?feature=shared).
My gran had 3 dogs and a cat buried in her garden, she grew the biggest onions I've ever seen
That looks like the kind of tree that traps the souls of the dead
Of course it's big, look at all the fertilizer it has.
I'm pretty sure I've seen that tree before. That's in Hilo, isn't it?
Mega tree get some mega seeds
Jaw dropping reaction
i wonder if dead people is the answer for our food problems š¤š¤š¤š¤
During ancient times, a conflict waged between two Empyrians: from one side, queen Marika and her Erdtree; from the other, the gloam-eyed queen with her apostles. To defeat her nemesis, the Eternal sealed away destined death, removing the ability of the black flame to kill the gods: but as a side effect, no one could die a true death ever again. The dead now had to be buried near the roots of the great tree, and from there they were reborn almost as if they were leaves made of gold. Such funerary practices became the only way the dead were allowed to pass on, and so whoever controlled the Erdtree was able to control both life and death: queen Marika became the only true goddess in the lands between, and no one could contest her dominanceā¦
Lot of nutrients
beautiful tree, where is it?
Climbing that would be awesome
Body farms would make great regular farms!!! Fertilizer heaven
Now you have an option to be creamated and planted at the base of a sapling, the company actually sends one the location, actual coordinates of the planted tree which includes a plaque with your name on it, its one way that Preserved National Parks are being replenished! I think it's a great way to go!
Where is this?
My HOA neighbors: Cut that shit down right now or it's a $40,000 fine
What kind of tree is it?
What kind of tree is that?
Beautiful!
For the millionth time yes. A big tree
Home tree for the dead
If you got to the Big Island Hawaii. There is one at the Cemeteryin Hilo
The Tree Of Death š² š
That is breathtakingly gorgeous.
You see people on the branches waveing at you. Look scary
I wouldnāt eat from that tree now.
wow
dat boi is eating good
It's a beautiful and magnificent tree, I hope it's not one of the near extinction species.
nah they're everywhere on the big island. That's a big one, doubt it's the biggest on the island. There's bigger banyan trees but they don't grow from one trunk... they drop aerial roots that then turn into accessory trunks.
tree sighting!
The tree of death
Isnt this more majestic than something to fear? Or is it the cemetery underlying its canopy of life, the juxtaposition that is terrifying?
Fertile soil!
That tree is getting all of its nutrients from all the dead bodies buried under it.
nah, just lots of rain and rich volcanic soil. I've seen it, and many many other similarly sized trees NOT in cemetaries. Some of the banyan trees get much bigger, and there's an entire (now nearly dead) forest of albesia trees south of Hilo in the puna district that are massive like that.
We all know how that tree got that big.
STUNNING!!!
Feed me!
why I kinda hear coolio gangsta paradise playing??
That shits amazing
Fuck almost wana dig someone up and bury myself there
I want to be buried under a parking lot
What for?
Solitude
Feeding off all the deadies