DesignerJae Rhim Leeis concerned about the carcinogenic affect of the funerary preservative methanal . That ’s why she ’s invented the Infinity Burial Suit — a.k.a . the Mushroom Death Suit — a postmortem garment project to use up the wearer ’s corpse .
In an audience withNew Scientistthe creative person key how she ’s training the mushroom to swear out her dead body .
The US politics recently upgraded formaldehyde from a likely carcinogen to a known carcinogen , so by trying to preserve the eubstance we envenom the living [ … ] I thought I could train a toxin - cleaning edible mushroom to eat up my body . These mushroom , which unremarkably farm on wood and decaying material in the woodland , can be trained to uprise on pretty much any organic textile and break it down . So I started collecting my hair’s-breadth , nails and peel so I could nibble the best mushroom to becomeInfinity Mushrooms , to recognize and eat my body after I perish .
She has yet to prove the suit and thinks it could use such sartorial touch as gelatin to promote fungus growth . Frankly , I cogitate this could make for a wondrous business organisation casual garment . Screw a great power tie beam , imagine those schmucks ’ faces when you roll up into next hebdomad ’s board confluence sporting this season ’s Mycological Corpse Pajamas .
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