Current Events > What is your opinion on less, physical burial of the deceased?

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Yeah I mean like less traditional burial in a plot? Have heard many others speak in favor of this

Sticking people in a coffin is a waste of good organic material.

I mean if I die and have a will Im telling my friends or loved ones to cremate my ass.

If I die make me a tree.

Or launch me into space.

I have a cemetery plot already.

furb posted...

I have a cemetery plot already.

Hope someone fills it with concrete.

If you are buried, the energy stored in your body doesn't go to waste. It feeds worms, bacteria, plants. Goes back to being a part of the life cycle.

Hard to make a case for it being so useful as ash.

My plan is already cremation, but people can decide for themselves.

Wherever I fall, dig a hole there and throw me in

Cemeteries take up too much land.

Revelation34 posted...

Cemeteries take up too much land.

Maybe less than golf courses though, George Carlin was critical of both

ai123 posted...

If you are buried, the energy stored in your body doesn't go to waste. It feeds worms, bacteria, plants. Goes back to being a part of the life cycle.

Hard to make a case for it being so useful as ash.

Outside the fact that you arent directly giving large sums of cash for a loved one to an industry that basically takes advantage of something like a burial.

I'm getting myself turned into two diamonds. 1 for each kid.

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Perhaps the option to choose to be a large patch of tulips or something else exists, for the purposes of other iterations of sexual organ-related humor.

GranTurismo posted...

Maybe less than golf courses though, George Carlin was critical of both

Depends on the size I guess. Golf courses would be easier to convert to farmland.

Arranged cremation for both my parents after they died.

Bump

Cremation seems a lot better, scatter the ashes. I don't need a permanent resting place just to take up space.

Ive been to many funerals and theyre all cremations. Burials just werent common anymore where I used to live.

Baha05 posted...

Outside the fact that you arent directly giving large sums of cash for a loved one to an industry that basically takes advantage of something like a burial.

That's irrelevant to my point.

The energy stored in your body is being returned to the Earth. Paying someone slightly less to waste it doesn't seem the best alternative.

Personally, I just want to be cremated and have the remains put in the Pacific. I can see the benefits of the composting thing though.

Otherwise, unless you're doing mummification, you're wasting time and effort. It all breaks down to nothing eventually.

My understanding though is that most people who believe in the possibility of resurrection still want to have whatever is left of their body around.

As it relates to family, everyone accounted for and close to each other is a slight positive. For instance, I recently found that I've visiting my great grandmother's grave for decades but her marker was so weathered by the elements.

Revelation34 posted...

Cemeteries take up too much land.

GranTurismo posted...

Maybe less than golf courses though, George Carlin was critical of both

Another point for miniature golf, which I already prefer to the professional stuff.

brestugo posted...

Personally, I just want to be cremated and have the remains put in the Pacific. I can see the benefits of the composting thing though.

Otherwise, unless you're doing mummification, you're wasting time and effort. It all breaks down to nothing eventually.

My understanding though is that most people who believe in the possibility of resurrection still want to have whatever is left of their body around.

Do any of you believe in the possibility of resurrection? possibly many people who want physical burial do believe in its possibility , wonder what percent though

GranTurismo posted...

Do any of you believe in the possibility of resurrection?

According to the source of the belief, where the body is has no bearing on the actual resurrection. All those bodies lost to space would get 'found' too.

GranTurismo posted...

Do any of you believe in the possibility of resurrection? possibly many people who want physical burial do believe in its possibility , wonder what percent though

Personally no.

To my mind though, if resurrection were possible, that being capable of doing it wouldn't be too troubled by the presence or absence of a rotted corpse.

Our family does cremation (maternal grandparents cremated, my maternal aunt cremated, my dad cremated, two of my mom's dogs cremated).

We should outlaw burying the dead

hockeybub89 posted...

We should outlaw burying the dead

Some religions require burying the dead (Islam requires burial within 24 hours of death, for example).

Funerals in general are such a scam.
Combine that with the fact that there's virtually no space left in most big city cementaries and it's not affordable to die, lmao.

Personally, idgaf what happens to my body after I'm gone, but the idea of slowly decomposing is kind of unsettling. Being thrown into a particle accelerator and instantly disintegrating seems like the best option.

throw my dead ass in the ocean and call it a day