Cremation

Bass Reeves

Because of climate change should cremations be banned. All that carbon going up in the air, the fuel needed to burn the body and the carbon within the body as well.

The carbon of a body buried is locked up within the grave. Carbon neutral option might be to put the body on a rack and let carrion birds clean the flesh off the bones. Then the bones could be buried.

But cremations are not climate friendly so they should be banned

DarkJager21

Let’s see you spout your bird rack idea when someone close to you actually dies.

Atlantic Dawn

Cremations should be encouraged, perhaps free of charge. Graves are taking up far too much useful land that could be used for housing or something productive.

osarusan

There's a new machine and process that effectively liquefies the body with a combination of water and some acid at very high temperatures, and removes the flesh from the skeleton, which can then be ground down, the same as cremation.

If I remember correctly, the liquid can even be used as a kind of fertiliser, but i might be wrong about that.

Donald Trump

Sure why not dump the bodies in a ditch and let the rats eat them.

It would be more practical than your "birds" idea

Gregor Samsa

Carbon neutral option might be to put the body on a rack and let carrion birds clean the flesh off the bones. Then the bones could be buried.

The Parsis in India (what’s left of the Zoroastrians) leave their dead out for birds to eat. Problem is, the vultures that do most of the work and eat the body on-site are dwindling, and the other birds often fly off with bits of human flesh and then drop them around the city.

https://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/160401322/vanishing-vultures-a-grave-matter-for-indias-parsis?t=1636246899959

Mixed feelings on cremations.....like.its only your bones/whatever wont burn,ground into dust your family gets back

But the taughts of being.scattered upon place on the farm,you were happiest in life is also appealing

B.A._Baracus

'cremations are not climate friendly so they should be banned'

I guess we should ban bbqs too.

.... The garbage you read on here.

Sleepy

I'd echo what Atlantic Dawn said: graveyards are an incredibly poor use of a finite resource. Cremations should be encouraged.

madeiracake

I did see it somewhere that they could put your body in a pod and use it to grow a tree.

Freddie Mcinerney

Shoot it up into space.

Man Vs ManUre

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140410#Comment_118140410

Yes you can do this. If you send a cheque for €10million to Elon Musk or the virgin guy, with name, address and date of birth, they will sort out the rest and leave you suspended in space for rest of eternity.

Freddie Mcinerney

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140430#Comment_118140430

Money well spent.

martinedwards

you do realise that at some point during cremation.......

the body is cooked to perfection!

SnazzyPig

This is the way to go =

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Silence

Spanish Eyes

If I were to croak it abroad on me travels/hols I want to be cremated there and the ashes either brought home with those I travelled with or posted home!

Stick the ashes in a box and have a funeral then I don't care. Would save so much angst trying to repatriate bodies from abroad. Could never understand the lengths (including financial) that some families go through to get someone's body home for a funeral. Who cares?

I know it is important to some people, but if the deceased doesn't care it shouldn't be an issue.

Shao Kahn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118129745#Comment_118129745

What did Hitler do with the people he cared the least about?

Incinerated them like discarded rubbish.

Nah, I'll take a natural burial. Plant a tree in my grave, so my body can nourish the land and continue to give life!

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118142712#Comment_118142712

Good luck finding anywhere outside a graveyard in this country that will let you legally be buried like that.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140352#Comment_118140352

Plant a body and plant a tree on top. Free fertiliser

I wouldn’t mind being picked by carrion birds; damned intelligent creatures could pick my brains any time.

Shao Kahn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118142753#Comment_118142753

I'm not worried about the legalities for me personally. I'm a very resourceful person. (even in death lol)

It's not very difficult to turn traditional graveyards into natural burial grounds, and it's only a matter of time before we have more of them in this country. It's the logical way to go - for those who don't fancy the cold clinical Nazi extermination option!

We are actively trying to re-wild the country anyway and plant more forests. So natural burial grounds will only accentuate this, and even enhance that objective. Someone dies, you plant at tree!

Even current graveyards are not the waste of space you think. They are quiet peaceful places, full of trees flowers and wildlife. If you had your way, we would have no burial grounds, but they would be replaced with more houses and probably skyscrapers etc.

Not every empty space needs to be filled with something "productive".

Andrea B.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118142658#Comment_118142658

Good point. Interestingly, many countries require(d) a permit/bureaucratic paperwork for that.

I found out last minute in France to here, but just didn't declare and backpack was not searched. Nobody died.

I believe a limit on the single 8x3 grave plot with bodies, but is there a limit on ashes to plots? If not, then fairly limitless in what can be added to existing family graves in terms of ashes.