The Infinity Burial Project began a few years ago with a fantasy to create the Infinity Mushroom a new hybrid mushroom that would decompose bodies, clean the toxins and deliver nutrients to plant roots, leaving clean compost.

Three compost bins go through about 70 kilos of raw vegetable waste a week really good, makes fantastic compost.

I compost it in this garden.

First, a burial suit infused with mushroom spores, the Mushroom Death Suit.

Jae Rhim Lee My mushroom burial suit

And so we see a mushroom here sporulating.

I especially like the flavour of the mushroom.

We had put too much carbon in the soil in the form of compost.

But here is a mushroom that's past its prime.

Our mushroom strains were in the highly active range.

There's a mushroom, ketchup it goes on and on.

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It's got my compost in it, which is growing an orange tree, which is great.

And I've just been so thrilled, finally, to come to people talking about compost latrines.

These are compost toilets, and nobody at the school wanted to know about them, especially the principal.

But I learned it's nearly impossible to create a new hybrid mushroom.

It's covered with a crocheted netting that is embedded with mushroom spores.

So, this one mushroom, in particular, has drawn our interest over time.

This is my wife Dusty, with a mushroom called Fomitopsis officinalis Agarikon.

Based on everything we know about the mushroom bodies, this makes perfect sense.

So this anatomy suggests that the mushroom bodies have something to do with action choice.

It's a mushroom exclusive to the old growth forest that Dioscorides first described in 65 A.D.

When I saw the mushroom cloud I fell into a state of desperation, he tells me.

We'd have a fish farm fed with vegetable waste from the kitchen and worms from the compost and supplying fish back to the restaurant.

I put my food waste into this dehydrating, desiccating macerator turns food into an inner material, which I can store and then compost later.

The dendritic pattern you see mimics the growth of mushroom mycelia, which are the equivalent of plant roots.

In 48 hours to 72 hours, these three mushroom species reduced the amount of coliform bacteria 10,000 times.

This mushroom grows in Washington State, Oregon, northern California, British Columbia, now thought to be extinct in Europe.

You want to get away from the initial fallout mushroom cloud, I said, in just a few minutes.

Eye witnesses said that there was a loud bang when the explosion occurred, and a mushroom cloud rose instantly.

Each odor activates a different combination of sensors, which in turn activates a different odor detector in the mushroom body.

The mycelium, in the right conditions, produces a mushroom it bursts through with such ferocity that it can break asphalt.

In this electronic toy circuit, the mushroom body neurons are symbolized by the vertical bank of blue LEDs in the center of the board.

I'm also making a decompiculture kit, a cocktail of capsules that contain Infinity Mushroom spores and other elements that speed decomposition and toxin remediation.

These 12 cells, as shown here in green, send the output to a brain structure called the mushroom body, which is shown here in gray.

Growing a mushroom is also part of a larger practice of cultivating decomposing organisms called decompiculture, a concept that was developed by an entomologist, Timothy Myles.

The Infinity Mushroom is a subset of decompiculture I'm calling body decompiculture and toxin remediation the cultivation of organisms that decompose and clean toxins in bodies.

It's also more benignly known as the honey mushroom or the humongous fungus because it happens to be one of the world's largest organisms as well.

Dr. Boyce, at the University of Chicago, published an article in the Journal of Geology this past year determining that Prototaxites was a giant fungus, a giant mushroom.

And then a delicate dance between dinner and death the mycelium is consumed by the ants, they become mummified, and, boing, a mushroom pops out of their head.

This is from a 16th century Aztec scroll showing a man about to eat a psilocybin mushroom and at the same moment get yanked up the staircase by a god.

See for me, cultivating the Infinity Mushroom is more than just scientific experimentation or gardening or raising a pet, it's a step towards accepting the fact that someday I will die and decay.

Bitumen permeates the dirt at the surface or, where thin layers of compost and sediment intervene, somewhat below basement levels. Grasping a handful of dirt from a riverbank does leave one s hand more oily than tarred, and the greasy dirt is somewhat sandy.

The Life Box you're gonna be getting a DVD of the TED conference you add soil, you add water, you have mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi as well as spores, like of the Agarikon mushroom.

And then the compost is all taken back to the roofs of the city, where we've got farming, because what we've done is lifted up the city, the landscape, into the air to to restore the native landscape on the roofs of the buildings.