I don't know what to tell you like I'm not Macabre I'm not like the guy from

Herald and Maud you know I'm not obsessed with death this is Ryan Lassard. A fan of Legos, science fiction, and a local reporter.

Full disclosure, he used to work for NHPR.

And if it weren't for him, this story probably would never have happened.

I'd like to read and think about stuff that is maybe uncomfortable for most people.

For a long time, Ryan had been thinking about what will happen to his body when he dies.

Today, his body is wearing a pair of narrow glasses and a flannel shirt.

I don't know how to introduce myself.

His wife, Xenahan, is sitting next to him in Ryan's video game chair.

There's an album of wedding photos placed nonchalantly on the table.

Yeah, actually, it's funny when we first started dating when we were in that like getting to

know you phase and we're asking each other about a bunch of different things.

I think I'm the one who brought it up first and I said well when I die I want to be

a tree and I kind of laughed because I didn't know how he was going to take it and Ryan was like yeah me too I want to be a tree too

That's how we jokingly say it be a tree, you know, like the Lion King Circle of Life thing.

Yeah, just like Mufasa said, you know, when we die, our bodies become the grass and the

antelopes eat the grass.

And the more we compare notes on the little finer details like, you know, not being

embalm, not having a casket, and then the actual tree, you know, that was a sign. It wasn't the only sign, but it was a sign.

We figured out we're the same brand of Weird and it works for us.

So. It works for us, so. Ryan and Sinahan aren't what you'd call green warriors.

They don't have solar panels or a compost bin. They are not a zero waste home.

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