Psilocybe Mushrooms Substrates

[2002Tii]

I'm wondering if there are any strains of Psilocybe mushrooms that can use a decomposing body as a substrate. I've been thinking recently that once I die I would like to be buried without a casket, or in a similar fashion, so that I can use my death as life for the various insects/plants/animals and give back to the world that gave birth to me. I remember reading about a woman who came up with a "mushroom suit" that you wear once you die and the mushrooms decompose you and use you as food.

It would be interesting if there are and Psilocin/Psilocybin containing strains that are capable of doing the same thing, that way if I die before my friends they can later eat those mushrooms and we can all share one last experience together. I'm doubtful that such a thing is possible but if anyone has any info please chime in.

Also any other info about how this idea may be implemented is welcome too.

Thank You all

 

[Solipsis]

Hehe, you should watch the TV series Hannibal. There is a killer in maybe around the 3rd-5th episode who uses doped up bodies to grow gourmet mushrooms. However that is somewhat science fiction-y and the explanations of how that was done is limited.

Most mushrooms are saprophytic, living on decaying biological material. For substrates there are a few criteria to be met regarding nutritional values, and there are a lot of different types of psilocybe mushrooms with special substrate needs. Most of those are dung-loving or wood-loving. The most common Psilocybes, the Cubensis can grow on the widest variety of substrates.

IMO a body being neither dung nor wood, would have to be buried surrounded by colonized substrate that forms a large and healthy patch all around the body. There may need to be added things to inorganically catalyse the decay of the body or the body would need to be sterilised (!!) so that the mushroom patch can use it as substrate before other fungi and bacteria do. In other words it would need to be handled as if it were any other substrate, and that is basically how it is done. The colonized substrate surrounding the body would be spawn for the bulk substrate that is the body.
Such a patch should be maintained, and can survive for many seasons in the right climate. However Cubensis is (sub)tropical so it may not survive a winter depending on where you live. Which is, in what general area? If it is too cold where you are another species might be better suited, my gut (no pun intended) tells me we are closer to being dung than to being wood, with the exception of one body part of course.

 

[2002Tii]

I live in Northern California. I know Cubensis and Cyanescens grow here naturally so the weather shouldn't be a worry. Thank you for the reply Solpsis and LOL at the end.