Do you ever think about what you want done with your body after you die? It's kind of a morbid thought, but we all have to make the decision sometime or another.

It seems to me that traditional burials are becoming less and less frequent. Many people seem to be getting cremated, or even made into things like diamonds or fireworks. One company even makes a biodegradable urn which will turn your ashes into a tree. The possibilities seem to be endless, but one more has been added to the list: the Infinity Burial Suit.

Jae Rhim Lee, co-founder of Coeio, the company producing these suits, came up with the idea over five years ago. Lee presented this idea in a TED talk in July 2011, wearing her mushroom burial suit.

Lee focused the talk around environmental toxins in the human body, mentioning that Centers for Disease Control in the United States has named 219 toxic pollutants in our bodies. When we die, these toxins return to the Earth, and then eventually get back into our systems through our consumption. Lee points out that our current funeral practices are not environmentally friendly because of this. When we cremate bodies, all of our toxins are released back into the environment by air. It releases over 5,000 pounds of mercury from our dental fillings alone. Also, when we preserve our dead bodies, we are pumping even more chemicals into our systems, and therefore further polluting the environment. She stated that "We are both responsible for, and the victims of, our own pollution."

Lee became a pioneer of the "Infinity Burial Project." The project advocates for a green burial practice: the use of mushrooms to decompose our bodily toxins after death. She developed "Infinity" mushrooms, which are edible mushrooms that she selected. She picked the mushrooms which best ate her human debris (i.e., her hair, skin, and nails). After she selected her mushrooms, she incorporated the spores into a "mushroom death suit." These spores are meant to feed on the body as it decomposes. According to Coeio, the spores "act to cleanse the body of many toxins and gently return the it to the earth." They even makes a mushroom burial pod for our pets.

Growing her own mushrooms to decompose her body after death was Lee's way of both accepting her inevitable departure, and also her way of lessening her negative contribution to the environment, as the mushrooms will break down her bodily toxins as she decomposes. Lee is hopeful about the Infinity Burial Suit in the future, saying, "I believe this is the beginning of true environmental responsibility."