What kind of tree will you be?

Watercolour botanical plate of a Moreton Bay fig: a vast spreading canopy over buttressed roots.

Many of us find the end of our story unsettling.

Cross-section of a cemetery: headstones and wildflowers above, a coffin sealed in the ground below. — Six feet under

A hand tipping an urn of ashes into the sea at sunset. — Ashes

We’re rewriting the ending.
What will yours be?

I became

a jacaranda

View some possibilities

Tell us how you want your story to end

A jacaranda in full lavender-blue bloom.

Black swans on a park lake, with reeds in the foreground and parkland beyond.

A willow leaning over still water, its branches trailing to the surface.

A dense bed of wildflowers in cosmos pink, white and gold.

A paddock with a horse grazing, an old timber shed and trees along the fence line.

A cymbidium orchid in flower in a glazed pot.

Australian bushland regenerating, with new growth coming up between the trees.

A stone bowl planted with many kinds of succulent.

A flowering cherry bonsai in a shallow dish.

A glass terrarium planted with mosses, ferns and small leafy plants.

This is what our future could look like with terramation, a new option alongside burial and cremation. It is not legal in Australia yet, but on 21 October 2026 a bill to allow it passed both Houses of the New South Wales Parliament and now awaits assent.

Legal jurisdictions have already proved it works. Evergrove aims to be one of the first Australian providers, and eventually operate in other parts of the world. We’re closely examining the living memorial possibilities that terramation creates through our research and partnerships. The terramation provisions commence two years after assent, so the earliest it could be offered in NSW is 2029. We expect to be operational by 2030/31, though that is only an estimate at this stage.

You can help by joining the movement to share where you want terramation, and talking about how you want your story to end with your loved ones.

Learn about terramation