Dying to be green: Are mushroom coffins the secret to an eco-friendly death?
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Fungi are not fussy diners. Cardboard, plastic, jet fuel and asbestos -- fungi will devour them all. In 2007, scientists studying Chernobyl's blighted landscape discovered a fungus capable of "eating" radiation. It almost goes without saying, then, that fungi have little trouble decomposing us.