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Ebone4rock
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Posted - 07/14/2010 :  09:31:51  Show Profile Send Ebone4rock a Private Message  Reply with Quote
One thing I have given quite a bit of thought to since I was a child is why humans feel the need to waste land on burying dead people. It seems so silly to me especially nowadays where you have to have a concrete vault to bury a person in. How is that going to help the body decompose? The way I figure it bodies should be disposed of in a way that they will decompose most efficiently. Cremation or burial just in the ground seem to me the most viable options.
All of the funerary practices throughout all of history only seem to be there to serve the living. Why do people not instead think of what the best way is to turn a corpse back into carbon?

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moakley
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Posted - 07/14/2010 :  09:48:11   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send moakley a Private Message  Reply with Quote
My Father-in-Law, several years ago, as we were drinking a beer from some hotel balcony looking out over a cemetary told me, "I must be a bad Christian. I just can't see wasting good land that way."

Two years ago he died and was cremated and his ashes used where a tree was planted. He was an interesting guy to talk to with a good sense of humor. I was lucky to have known him.
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Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous
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Dude
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Posted - 07/14/2010 :  09:53:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I'm all for recycling. Put me in the compost heap when I die!
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

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The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth
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