Outside/In
Outside/In
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The Death Machine
31 minutes Posted Jan 19, 2017 at 3:00 am.
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When Ryan and Sinehan Lessard first started dating, they discovered they have something strange in common: after they die, they both want to “become a tree”. This is the story about a growing number of people who want to forgo standard funeral practices like embalming, caskets and big granite monuments in favor of a more natural burial - and why that’s easier said than done.