It can be done, and here’s how.
How to turn a human being into a tree
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:September 8, 2011
- Post category:Human animals / Whimsy
- Post comments:2 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
My mother would have loved this. But this weekend my brother and I consigned our parent’s ashes to some of their favorite recreational spots, as we revisited and relived some family memories.
Part of my mother will become tree, anyway.
Dan: Perhaps the post should have been titled “How to promptly start turning a human into another species.” Parts of me will become parts of worms, acorns and mushrooms, I assume. The tree gizmo merely aims the dearly departed’s ashes toward a particular new species.