Stanley Park's Hollow Tree listed as 'monument' stanley park hollow tree - Google Image Search
Another tree that the local authority wants to cut down however it's now considered a monument and efforts being made to preserve/save it somehow.
Seems humans are yet to truly grasp the finite thing called life. Has a beginning and an end ... end of story.
I reckon, cut it down, use it as you like. Thing about trees is they can be useful when dead ... furniture, instruments, buildings, ornaments etc. Could always build a replica I suppose if a shrine is how you like to remember the past.
However, in a hundred years time the current generation would have died out too so who'd really care?
Think about it, how many of you right now reading this can recall a tree, that is dead, and for some reason or other care,
that did not die during you life span.
The allocation of resources to such things is emotional and illogical.... it is the cycle of life, and for some bizaar reason when the end of that cycle is near the $'s allocated to terminal condition is bloody irrational.