containment-burial

The visualization is intriguing --it shows a burial vault and plants which look like un-planned growth all around it. The author's argument here is that the vault aims to keep the human body separate from these other organisms and processes of decay, through the vault. It is inevitably a process that hinges on containment as well as its failure. I wonder though- is it failure or is it more of a management of death, or even a way to think about death and the human body in death in ways that are similar to how they expect the body alive to be present, materially intact (even though it isn't?)? As relatives make decisions about burial, could it also be about how the vault become the way to think about not only death but also "life" and the possible continuities with life before death?