Last Wishes Simulator

Plan your End of the Line

Because you won't get a say on the big day.
Might as well decide now.

A Death in Numbers tool to learn and take the drama out of it. Some methods are not legal everywhere: in France, human composting, promession and aquamation are not allowed, and rules vary by country and state. Nothing here is a contract or a legal document.

1. Choose your mode of burial

Select the physical destination of your mortal remains.

Votre choix

Capsula Mundi

You become forest again.

€500 – 1,500

Un arbre plantéNature

✓ Capsula Mundi

You don't end up underground. You take root.

Curled in the fetal position inside a biodegradable organic capsule, your body feeds the roots of a tree you chose while alive. Over the decades, the cemetery of gray slabs gives way to a living forest.

0 kg of concreteA tree you chose while alive

Not permitted in France

Promession

Eco-friendly freeze-drying under nitrogen.

~€1,000

-196°CFroid

Promession

Shattered into powder by extreme cold, returned to the topsoil.

Plunged into liquid nitrogen at -196°C, the body turns brittle. Gentle vibrations break it down into an organic powder, and the metals are removed. Buried just below the surface, that powder becomes compost.

-196°CNo flame, no combustion

Not permitted in France

Mycelium Coffin

The living coffin that cleans the soil.

€1,000 – 1,500

2 à 3 ansNature

Mycelium Coffin

The coffin that doesn't pollute the earth. It feeds it.

Grown in a few days from mushroom roots and hemp, this living cocoon comes alive the moment the body is laid inside. Where a varnished coffin leaves its solvents in the ground, mycelium restores the microorganisms of the subsoil.

100% plant and fungusBreaks down in 2 to 3 years

Legal status in France unverified

Humusation

Regeneration through forest compost.

~€1,500

12 monthsNature

Humusation

12 months to return a body to the earth.

In a fenced, wooded sanctuary, the body is laid on a bed of wood chips and microorganisms, with no embalming and no chemicals. Covered by a mound of plants, within a year it becomes a rich black humus, ready to grow a family orchard.

12 monthsNo embalming

Not permitted in France, under review

Contemporary Cremation

Thermal purification into ashes.

~€2,000

850 to 1,100°CFeu

Contemporary Cremation

The heat of a star, leaving only the mineral.

A controlled cremation between 850°C and 1,100°C keeps only the mineral imprint of the skeleton. Kept in an urn or scattered in the wild, your ashes mark the most radical, cleanest kind of ending.

850 to 1,100°CAbout 90 minutes

Permitted in France

Underwater Memorial Reef

Your memorial at the bottom of the ocean.

€3,000 – 7,000

Récif vivantCendres

Underwater Memorial Reef

Sleep beneath the surf and shelter schools of silver fish.

Your ashes are mixed into a dome of pH-neutral marine concrete, engraved with your name, then sunk. Within a few months, anemones, corals and fish move in: you take up no burial plot on land, you become an underwater refuge.

pH-neutral marine concreteNo burial plot on land

Legal status in France unverified

Memorial Diamond

Your purified carbon for eternity.

€5,000 – 20,000

Carbone des cendresCendres

Memorial Diamond

Ashes, 60,000 atmospheres, eternity on a finger.

The carbon in your ashes is extracted in a lab, then subjected to the conditions of the Earth's mantle: extreme pressure and extreme heat. Week after week, the crystal lattice sets into a diamond, rough or cut, that can be handed down forever.

10 out of 10 on the Mohs scaleRough or cut

Not covered by French law

Space Burial

Earth or lunar orbit.

€2,500 – 12,500

Fusée, orbiteCendres

Space Burial

Escape Earth's gravity and become a shooting star.

A sealed capsule carries a symbolic fraction of your ashes aboard a rocket. Depending on the mission, you orbit the Earth before burning up in the upper atmosphere, or you head for the Moon and deep space.

28,000 km/h in low Earth orbitOne lap of the Earth in 90 minutes

Legal status in France unverified

Cryopreservation

The bet on future revival.

€28,000 – 200,000

-196°CFroid

Cryopreservation

Freeze time at -196°C until death is defeated.

After death is legally declared, the blood is replaced with cryoprotectants to keep ice crystals from destroying the cells, before vitrification in liquid nitrogen. The body then waits for repair therapies that don't exist yet.

A constant -196°CUnlimited storage period

Prohibited in France

Traditional Burial

Centuries-old tradition under stone.

€3,000 – 8,000

Concession communaleTerre

Traditional Burial

The weight of tradition, sealed in oak and granite.

The age-old farewell, in the ground of your ancestors: a fine wood coffin, a solemn casketing and a plot in a quiet cemetery. A fixed place where the living can still come and read your name carved in stone.

Temporary or perpetual burial plotA place to come back to

Permitted in France

Alkaline Hydrolysis (Aquamation)

Gentle dissolution by water and alkali.

€2,000 – 4,000

90% less energyEau

Alkaline Hydrolysis (Aquamation)

The fire of cremation, replaced by the touch of an alkaline current.

In a sealed chamber, the body rests in a bath of hot pressurized water and potassium hydroxide. In a few hours, the organic matter dissolves, and the bleached bone remains are reduced to a pale powder.

90% less energyNo flame, no smoke

Not permitted in France, under review

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