How to bury a dead body?
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The environmental friendly way is bury the body standing up, it has the following advantages: 1. Save space, obviously. 2. Save materials used to make the coffin. 3. Save a tombstone. :laugh:
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The environmental friendly way is bury the body standing up, it has the following advantages: 1. Save space, obviously. 2. Save materials used to make the coffin. 3. Save a tombstone. :laugh:
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The environmental friendly way is bury the body standing up, it has the following advantages: 1. Save space, obviously. 2. Save materials used to make the coffin. 3. Save a tombstone. :laugh:
Dump bodies in the ocean instead. Fish needs food too. :) -- Oneigaishimasu! I blog too now[^]
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The environmental friendly way is bury the body standing up, it has the following advantages: 1. Save space, obviously. 2. Save materials used to make the coffin. 3. Save a tombstone. :laugh:
I don't see what any of those have to do with burying the body upright? 1. Burying them deeper and stacking then would use the same space (and be less difficult to dig the holes). 2. Surely you still need the same sized coffin? Eventually the bodies would decompose and fall down but you normally bury them within a couple of a weeks. 3. People can get cremated and buried in spaces even smaller than those that would be required to bury upright, and they still have tombstones. Personally I think if we want a truely environmentaly friendly way to dispose of bodies we should ceremoniously drop them into active volcanoes. All the benefits of cremation but without having to bury the ashes. You can still give the families a plaque to remember the dead person with. Plus from the dead person's point-of-view it's a pretty cool thing to brag about to the other guys in purgatory. Now with live bodies - that is where burying them upright would work best... :suss:
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The environmental friendly way is bury the body standing up, it has the following advantages: 1. Save space, obviously. 2. Save materials used to make the coffin. 3. Save a tombstone. :laugh:
French Legionnaires that are buried in foreign countries are usually buried standing up and facing France. The hole is then filled with lye so the body will decompose quicker and to keep animals from trying to dig into the hole. This also means no grass will grow where the hole was dug and therefore the gravesite will always be known. "If you find yourself wounded and lying on Afghanistan's plains, Before the women come out to carve up your remains, Roll over on your rifle and blow out your brains, And go to your God like a soldier." -- Kipling
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I don't see what any of those have to do with burying the body upright? 1. Burying them deeper and stacking then would use the same space (and be less difficult to dig the holes). 2. Surely you still need the same sized coffin? Eventually the bodies would decompose and fall down but you normally bury them within a couple of a weeks. 3. People can get cremated and buried in spaces even smaller than those that would be required to bury upright, and they still have tombstones. Personally I think if we want a truely environmentaly friendly way to dispose of bodies we should ceremoniously drop them into active volcanoes. All the benefits of cremation but without having to bury the ashes. You can still give the families a plaque to remember the dead person with. Plus from the dead person's point-of-view it's a pretty cool thing to brag about to the other guys in purgatory. Now with live bodies - that is where burying them upright would work best... :suss:
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David Wulff wrote: Burying them deeper and stacking then would use the same space (and be less difficult to dig the holes). They actually do that in Kenya. They have like big dressers with draws in them. "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."
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I don't see what any of those have to do with burying the body upright? 1. Burying them deeper and stacking then would use the same space (and be less difficult to dig the holes). 2. Surely you still need the same sized coffin? Eventually the bodies would decompose and fall down but you normally bury them within a couple of a weeks. 3. People can get cremated and buried in spaces even smaller than those that would be required to bury upright, and they still have tombstones. Personally I think if we want a truely environmentaly friendly way to dispose of bodies we should ceremoniously drop them into active volcanoes. All the benefits of cremation but without having to bury the ashes. You can still give the families a plaque to remember the dead person with. Plus from the dead person's point-of-view it's a pretty cool thing to brag about to the other guys in purgatory. Now with live bodies - that is where burying them upright would work best... :suss:
Ðavid Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
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I guess the first guy was trying to be funny or something, but for logistical reasons bodies are buried vertically and - as you mentioned - stacked horizontally in some parts of the US. Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
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I don't see what any of those have to do with burying the body upright? 1. Burying them deeper and stacking then would use the same space (and be less difficult to dig the holes). 2. Surely you still need the same sized coffin? Eventually the bodies would decompose and fall down but you normally bury them within a couple of a weeks. 3. People can get cremated and buried in spaces even smaller than those that would be required to bury upright, and they still have tombstones. Personally I think if we want a truely environmentaly friendly way to dispose of bodies we should ceremoniously drop them into active volcanoes. All the benefits of cremation but without having to bury the ashes. You can still give the families a plaque to remember the dead person with. Plus from the dead person's point-of-view it's a pretty cool thing to brag about to the other guys in purgatory. Now with live bodies - that is where burying them upright would work best... :suss:
Ðavid Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
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David Wulff wrote: 1. Burying them deeper and stacking then would use the same space (and be less difficult to dig the holes). I remember reading about church cemeteries in England where that is done. I forget the exact figure but they were talking about how the cemetery is now a hill where it was originally flat ground. The hill was built out of all the bodies buried there.
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David Wulff wrote: 1. Burying them deeper and stacking then would use the same space (and be less difficult to dig the holes). I remember reading about church cemeteries in England where that is done. I forget the exact figure but they were talking about how the cemetery is now a hill where it was originally flat ground. The hill was built out of all the bodies buried there.
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I think moving bodies from the churchyards into catacombs and reusing the ground above for new burials is the way to go for those that don't want to be cremated. I wouldn't like for it to be my job though. We have catacombs under my local city, Exeter, used for burials. They were built in the 1830's after the cholera outbreak to house all the bodies but they weren't used very much. I remember visiting them with my school class at about 9 yrs old - a creepy, creepy place. Listen, dry bones Listen to the voice of the Lord The powerful God of our ancestors Who in one breath created them Will re-tie your undone knots You will have new flesh On which new skin will form Dry bones, you will live again I haven't been through the main underground passages yet because the last time I went to book a trip they were closed. Exeter's are nothing quite like the catacombs under Paris though - the world's largest piece of art - I would love to see them first hand before they eventually disapear (5km is lost every year). In twenty years all that will be left are the touristy bits. Not speaking French and the whole 'it being illegal' thing though mean I probably won't get to see anything but Les Catacombes. It's amazing to think these sorts of places[^] exist.
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The environmental friendly way is bury the body standing up, it has the following advantages: 1. Save space, obviously. 2. Save materials used to make the coffin. 3. Save a tombstone. :laugh:
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