[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Possibility of severe plagues, where they killed the sick?

[blackdog]

The introduction of the steam shovel and backhoe changed the hard realities of disposition of the dead in ways it's difficult to explain.

Has one person here ever dug a 8X4X6 hole with hand tools?

Some latitudes left the dead stacked like cordwood for months until the ground thawed enough to dig a hole.