[SamAdams76]

I wish people would stop buying gravestones. Cemeteries take up a lot of space and there are billions of people on this world currently. If we buried them all in the traditional way, our planet would eventually be covered with cemeteries with no room left for the living.

I don't like that scenario.

Now that we have GPS technology, I'm thinking we can do away with the headstones to mark gravesites. Just plug in a GPS coordinate such as 43°21'44" N 71°16'10" and presto, there is your burial site!

No need for gravestones now. Just turn the land above into a nice golf course. Cemeteries make the best golf courses. Just take away the headstones and assign GPS coordinates to each of the grave sites. Then build your golf course.

[Moonman62]

Now that we have GPS technology, I’m thinking we can do away with the headstones to mark gravesites. Just plug in a GPS coordinate such as 43°21’44” N 71°16’10” and presto, there is your burial site!

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That’s in very rural Kazakhstan. There should be plenty of room there.

You’re idea isn’t bad. Good headstones are expensive. Combining the GPS coordinates with a page on Findagrave would be a more modern tribute. And instead of preserving the body, why not just a few cells?

[Rurudyne]

Oh please!

I’m sure they’ll move the graves and not just the headstones for future housing developments.

[Manly Warrior]

You know you could fit every person on the planet into 10,x 10m plot in Texas and they’d all fit right? Not that I’d do that to Texas mind you.

[Vermont Lt]

Two generations down the road it doesn’t much matter. I am kind of a fan of the Creole way: lay you in the tomb. When the next one bites the dust, they sweep your bones to the floor, and they take your place. Shared real eastate.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I wish people would stop buying gravestones. Cemeteries take up a lot of space and there are billions of people on this world currently. If we buried them all in the traditional way, our planet would eventually be covered with cemeteries with no room left for the living.

I plan to have my ashes scattered on the buffet at Hunan Palace. Or put in the alfalfa the longhorns eat at the ranch, so they can place them at random when the spirit moves them.

[T-Bone Texan]

I posit that you are high on pot, or you just really hate cemeteries.

[Rastus]

And then PGA will stand for Poltergeist Golf Association.

[publius911]

Not so fastNow that we have GPS technology, I'm thinking we can do away with the headstones to mark gravesites. Just plug in a GPS coordinate such as 43°21'44.00x" N, and W71°16'10.00x" and presto, there is your burial site!

Not so fast!
Those coordinates, taken to the nearest second would cover roughly 10 gravesites in Latitude and between 07 and 09 in longitude, depending on the latitude of the United States location (these are not exact figures.)

In summary, the location of a specific "gravesite" might require latitude and longitude precision of a resolution of 0.01 or perhaps even 0.001 seconds.

I retired 11 years ago and have not used the necessary math to determine more definite numbers since 1997 (21 years, now.)

If the Basic computer language were still available, specifically HP Basic of the late 80s-early 90s, it would take, at most an hour to write and debug a routine to define what the actual numbers should be to lay out gravesites say 4' by 8 feet with a 1-foot separation between them.

[itsahoot]

No need for gravestones now.

No need for graves either. The funeral business has about priced itself out of business anyway and that is a good thing.

[Hot Tabasco]

If we buried them all in the traditional way,

One family, one plot. Just stack the boxes one on top of the other........The size of the family would determine the depth of the hole............