Posted on 08/10/2018 7:03:21 PM PDT by SamAdams76
You have WAY too much time on your hands.
That’s a much better idea than recycling. Old people don’t taste good no matter how you prepare them.
There is an alternative.
The entire population of the world wouldn’t even begin to fill up the Grand Canyon. So no worries.
I’m fine with having my corpse liquified and made safe enough to pour into a lake. There are just too many people on the planet too continue with earthen burials as the most used method. If a doctor wants to take some of my organs first, then fine. After that, I won’t be needing a lot of physical space on this plane. No need to hog the resources.
I vacationed once at Lake George. Now you got me to wondering how the lake got its name.
If we buried people vertically, they’d take up less space.
America is relatively young but we still have a number of cemeteries that are no longer visible. In Europe there unearth the remains of humans quite frequently. They’re finding cemeteries under parking lots, when excavating new building sites ect. It wasn’t that long ago that the remains of Richard the third were unearthed when builders were extending a parking lot at an Episcopal Church somewhere in England. I had a friend about 20 years ago used to have a high school job working in a cemetery that routinely collapsed graves and put new vaults on top of old grave sites. I think we’ll see that probably in the near future at some crowded urban areas traditional grave sites. The old Congressional graveyard up off of Capitol Hill in Washington DC has been shuttered for years and I’m not sure if anybody is even being buried there currently. I wonder what happened with that plot of very expensive land?
LOL!
My grandparents on one side broke with tradition and were cremated. One set of their parents already had a plot, so their ashes are buried there.
My parents are talking about cremation with no stone, and having their ashes spread in a favorite place.
I have decided some time back I will do the same.
I see and have often indulged in the emotional need for a place to visit, but the spirits of the names on those stones aren’t there.
Usually your vanities are a bit more uplifting, Sam! I liked the one you did on the shopping malls back in the 80s. Memory lane and all that.
More deaths equal more people voting Democrat/s
In a more serious note: many countries who are running out of room for cemeteries are pushing cremation and either keeping ashes at home or putting them in a “memorial garden” or at sea. In either case, they claim, it’s more eco-friendly.
No zombie apocalypse for you!
Lol!
Take a Flight anywhere and you’ll see miles and miles of nothing and nobody
You will have to get out the jackhammers and dynamite to blast new holes.
And NO. You will not put your dead in the cranberries bogs
Seedless watermelons are awesome. How did they grow watermelons without the seeds!
Next, I hope they can start growing pitless cherries. I would eat more cherries if they didn't have pits in them. I know you can spit them out but it's kind of gross.
I think I remember reading that in japan you get a plot for like 5 years and then someone else gets to use it.
If you dig deep enough, you get to China.
Instead of digging, just load cemetary bodies on to shipping containers and send dead people to China, tariff free.
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