Posted on 08/10/2018 7:03:21 PM PDT by SamAdams76
I keep thinking about the fact that everywhere you go, there are cemeteries. As we get more and more populated with people, more and more people will die.
Eventually, I'm concerned that there will be so many dead people that we will run out of space to bury them and that they will then have to start tearing down houses of living people in order to find room to bury the dead.
This might not happen in my lifetime but if it doesn't, I'll become part of the problem because they will have to find a spot to bury me. I don't want them to have to tear down YOUR house in order to bury me.
So how to solve the problem? I'm thinking we need to do away with headstones and just start burying people with GPS markers. We have the technology now. This will allow us to bury people just about anywhere. On a beach. On a golf course. Out in the woods. Maybe even in somebody's backyard. So when you want to go visit the burial site of somebody buried this way, you just plug the coordinates into your smartphone (there will be an app for that) and follow the instructions to get there.
I think burial by GPS is a way better way to bury people. I especially like the backyard idea because it gives us an opportunity to make some extra income. Instead of paying a cemetery to bury somebody, just pay somebody with a backyard.
I'm thinking my backyard could bury up to maybe 1,000 people. Now if I got say, $449.95 per burial, that would amount to an income of $499,500. That would pay off my mortgage. I would assign everybody a unique GPS coordinate and they can come anytime to lay down flowers and such. I won't mind. Just no headstones. Maybe just a brick that will lay flush with the ground stenciled with the name and dates and such. I'll keep the lawn mowed and keep a water cooler out back so you can quench your thirst as you are visiting your deceased loved ones. I'll provide some parking spaces out front and play some Bach organ music on speakers.
Golf courses are another great idea for burial grounds. All that lush grass. Who wouldn't want to be buried on a golf course! Again, provide a GPS coordinate and then you can rent a golf cart and play your way to the burial site. Maybe you will have a cousin buried on the fourth hole (par 3) and a grandmother buried on the 10th hole (par 4). The more you go to visit them, the better you will get at golf!
Possibilities are endless. But let's start doing away with those cemeteries. They are taking up way too much land and soon we will run out of land if we keep going the way we are going. Soon, the entire world will be one big cemetery with no room left for living people. We can't keep building cemeteries. Look at the map of a section of Queens, NY below - all the green areas are cemeteries! You can see how this will become an even bigger problem if people keep dying and we do nothing about it.
Lol...pinball golf.
And that's while still fleshy and bloated...once they turn to dust, they'd just make a pretty snow-like coating....
Rest easy. Lots of alternatives. Me - burial at sea. Feed the fishes.
My wife and I own our own family cemetery on our 30 acres here in rural Florida. Established in 1937 by my wife's grandparents.
We pay no property taxes on the 1/2 acre for it. I keep it mowed and trimmed.
I joke with my wife, that when I die, to let me know so I could mow the grass so it would look nice for the funeral.
In 2015 cremations overtook burials in the United States and the gap widens each year. It's very expensive these days to be buried.
Skyscraper Mausoleums.
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