In the future, your body won't be buried, it will be dissolved (wired.co.uk)

Excellent idea for a process that merely speeds up something (recycling) that's going to happen whatever, given time.

We have too many dead people - makes sense to me. I also like the idea of dead bodies as fertilizers for trees. But I'd way prefer to have my ashes help nourish a badass oak tree then just slowly rot away. Or maybe an apple tree...