These images are making the rounds without any info. So here’s the only info that was posted with the original photos in a Facebook group called “New Mexico Shed and Game Hunters” by Henry A. Mondragon Jr. on April 18, 2016 - “Friend’s dad was out hiking and stumbled onto this, thought I’d share!” Malinda Marie Martinez commented - “This picture was taken in the Zuni Mountains. It was my father who found it. You could tell he tried to get out his horns were busted up pretty good.” She also mentioned that her Dad kept the part of the antler that was missing.
Believe it or not what you see here in not that uncommon. A truly horrifying way to die without a doubt. Although there is a chance he could have died rather quickly from suffocation, from the ribcage getting compressed. Still not a great way to die but not slowly suffering at least. Cattle, moose, bison, sheep, deer and other animals have been found like this as well. Even fossilized. RIP poor beast.
Project designers, Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel have constructed a biodegradable, organic capsule as an alternative to a coffin called, “The Capsula Mundi.” The purpose of the project is a conceptually and physically beautiful one; it is to reunite the deceased body back with nature and life. After the deceased is buried in a fetal position inside the pod, a tree seed or tree will be planted above the capsule. Within time the body’s nutrients will nurture the ground, causing a tree to grow from the remains.
Instead of harming the environment by chopping down trees for wooden coffins and burying them, the project’s aim is to promote green cemeteries adorned with trees, you can chose. Originally conceived in Italy, the project is a working theory at the moment because Italian law forbids this type of burial. The goal is to comfort loved ones with a majestic body of nature they can visit. “A cemetery will no longer be full of tombstones and will become a sacred forest.”
View the process below.
The client will choose the tree.
The deceased person will be buried in a fetal position inside the pod.
Their bodies will transform into nutrients for a tree to grow.
Russian photographer Maria Ionova-Gribina’s unique but morbid Natura Morta project lets us look into the saddest part of nature’s cycle – death. In these beautiful photographs, the animals look like they’re sleeping peacefully, with birds dreaming of flight and rabbits of running. The photographer reveals how this idea of honoring dead animals came to her:
“When me and my brother found a dead mole, bird or bug we buried them on the border of a forest. And we decorated the grave with flowers and stones.” She decided to continue the tradition while also taking beautiful photographs of animals that died naturally or after accidents with cars. The flowers used in these photos were gathered near the animals and in the photographer’s garden.
