You’re literally shaken to an inch (Picture: Youtube/ Promessa)

Even if you recycle yoghurt pots you probably haven’t given much thought to how to best decompose your corpse.

Luckily a Swedish scientist has thought about it and she’s developed a tech solution for an environmentally friendly burial.

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The ingenious machine will take your lifeless corpse and make you clean and useful compost within a matter of months.

Swedish biologist Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak spent three years making it, perhaps, the most green crematorium on earth.


Simply pop your dead relative into the machine watch as it removes their coffin, freezes them, vibrates their body into dust, then pops them into a sack of potatoes.



No seriously. A video details how you can put the remains of a body into a bag of potato or corn starch.

It is unsurprising that Wiigh-Mäsak is a keen gardener and the green fingered scientist was motivated by a concern for the damage done to soil by burial.

The body is cryogenically frozen with liquid nitrogen at -196°C before being vibrated, freeze dried and having ‘metals’ removed from the remains.

After ‘metal’ is removed your put in a sack of potato starch (Picture: Youtube/ Promessa)

The freeze drying remove so liquid it leaves just 30 per cent and the corpse looks more like compost.

Wiigh-Mäsak’s company, Promessa, based in Gothenburg, cheerily tells viewers: ‘We all die. That’s just how life goes.’

Bodies can never turn into good soil without the process, Wiigh-Mäsak claims and polling in Sweden shows support for the invention.

The scientist has only tested on pigs so far (Picture: Susanne Wiigh Mäsak, Promessa)

Speaking to Metro.co.uk Wiigh-Mäsak has threatened the UK will be in the first 10 nations to use the machine despite interest from more than 90.

She said: ‘It is no doubt that the environmentally forward thinking England, is going to be in the lead when it comes to implementing Promession and our improved clean cremation method.’

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Asked whether it was respectful to the body she added: ‘When it comes to respect, I would say that Promession is the most clean, dignified and respectful way to treat a human body.

‘Promessa do not see the body as something that should be disposed, rather something to take well care of.

‘That must be a paradigm shift. Well treated with Promession, our corpses will become a gift back to nature instead of being looked upon as something to dispose or burn, as is the case today.’