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Burying our dead.

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  • #32
    UCDVet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    kneemos wrote: »
    Why don't we bury them upright?plots would be smaller and cheaper and councils would save money on new graveyards.

    Practically....
    You need to get them a certain distance below the surface to prevent smells and animals digging them up.

    It's much easier to dig a wide hole 2 meters down than it is to dig a narrow hole 3 meters deep.

    Religiously/Spiritually....
    People are more comfortable 'laying someone to rest' (we rest laying down) than standing them up for eternity.


  • #33
    Janelle Mango Attic
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Janelle Mango Attic


    I'd love to be launched into space. I won't know the difference, but I fancy hurtling around the galaxy.


  • #34
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,591 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Soylent Green FTW


  • #35
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    tritium wrote: »
    I saw a movie about that once

    It didn't end well

    Poltergeist I think it was called

    Based on a true story ........ :)

    A different film came to my mind.

    Pet Cemetery.


  • #36
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    It's a tradition around here where the neighbours will make the grave for people whose family member has died, think it's probably more of a rural thing these days though.


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  • #37
    Artful_Badger
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    People should be cremated, its a bit outdated to be sticking dead people in holes in the ground.


  • #38
    Jose1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭Jose1


    Chinasea wrote: »
    many still want to continue to take space when they die.


    Surely you know that matter cannot be created or destroyed:rolleyes:


  • #39
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    Cremation rules out the possibility of Zombification.
    Burn em all!


  • #40
    Altreab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 667 ✭✭✭Altreab


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    It's a tradition around here where the neighbours will make the grave for people whose family member has died, think it's probably more of a rural thing these days though.
    Yeah it seems to be and from where i am the neighbours also take turns filling in the grave. Everything done there and then. grave completely finished including the replacement of the green sod before mourners leave. IMHO it helps with the grieving process.


  • #41
    Martonio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭Martonio


    I wouldn't mind giving taxidermy a go. Sit there on my favourite chair with a motion sensor that spouts off some sentences or words like "Hey! You! Get away"


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  • #42
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    So you think the graveyards will be ploughed up and houses built on them?
    Wolf Tone square on Jervis St used to be St Marys graveyard. It's been a park for years, so when it comes time to rezone it, I bet there won't be any outcry because people don't remember it was a graveyard. Clever, eh?


  • #43
    wretcheddomain
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Why don't we bury them upright?plots would be smaller and cheaper and councils would save money on new graveyards.

    Have you lost the plot or something?


  • #44
    justforlaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭justforlaugh


    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2376190/Chopped-fed-vultures-glimpse-closely-guarded-tradition-Tibetan-sky-funeral.html


  • #45
    Pang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    I think I'd go the route of medical science and then get cremated.

    I'll be dead so what the hell. No point spending a small fortune, buying a casket and a plot etc... Not like I'll be experiencing it or anything.


  • #46
    Mozzeltoff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,614 ✭✭✭Mozzeltoff


    I always like the idea of a viking burial..


  • #47
    Martonio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭Martonio


    There is a lot to be said about donating your body to medical science.
    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32145.Stiff

    This is a great book about what sort of science your body is contributing to. It is a great read and very funny.


  • #48
    getzls
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    So you think the graveyards will be ploughed up and houses built on them?

    That does happen.
    Bodies are removed first.


  • #49
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,936 ✭✭✭mf240


    The Narrator wrote: »
    Why do we bury them at all?

    In the distant future those graveyards are going to be prime real estate, as there will be too many people and not enough land.

    Ghost estates?


  • #50
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    I have no problem with graves, but graveyards can change. There will always be a demand for green space and park space. I think graveyards can be more than a den for the gone and grieving, they should bring some life into the place.


  • #51
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    Chinasea wrote: »
    We shouldn't be buried at all.

    Haven't humans used enough of the world's resources when alive, yet many still want to continue to take space when they die.

    Ridicules goolish, selfish practice.

    I think you would have a point if when buried we stayed in a mummified state, but our bodies are broken down and used by bacteria, insects, worms, etc. I take it your solution is to be cremated which would surely impact in a more negative way in terms of pollution and less matter for things on earth to convert to resources.

    I think in Spain or Catalonia they have a time limit on plots for burial. When the time limit is up, your bones are removed and it's resold. I would say it's the way of the future as space becomes more of an issue with an increasing populace.


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  • #52
    RDM_83 again
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    Mozzeltoff wrote: »
    I always like the idea of a viking burial..

    Is that with or without all the sex (rape) and human sacrifice that went along with it?


  • #53
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    Toby Take a Bow wrote: »
    I think you would have a point if when buried we stayed in a mummified state, but our bodies are broken down and used by bacteria, insects, worms, etc. I take it your solution is to be cremated which would surely impact in a more negative way in terms of pollution and less matter for things on earth to convert to resources.

    I think in Spain or Catalonia they have a time limit on plots for burial. When the time limit is up, your bones are removed and it's resold. I would say it's the way of the future as space becomes more of an issue with an increasing populace.

    Yeah in Tokyo maybe...not in Ireland with one of the lowest population densities in Europe.


  • #54
    jos28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,292 ✭✭✭jos28


    kneemos wrote: »
    Why don't we bury them upright?

    Because we get laid to rest not stood to rest !


  • #55
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    Cremated and left to blow all over mother Africa!


    Anyway if we buried the dead upright would all the bones just not collapse? Bring a whole new meaning to bag of bones anyway!


  • #56
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Chinasea wrote: »
    We shouldn't be buried at all.

    Haven't humans used enough of the world's resources when alive, yet many still want to continue to take space when they die.

    Ridicules goolish, selfish practice.

    its comments like that,which make me want to buy two plots just to spite you hippies.


  • #57
    candy-gal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    Cryogenically frozen FTW :)

    Its damn well expensive, but if thats the only way Ill be able to live forever, so to speak, then il start saving now if I have to, or whoevers left in charge of my going away can take oyt a loan for it for me :p:pac::)! :D


  • #58
    Mozzeltoff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,614 ✭✭✭Mozzeltoff


    RDM_83 again wrote: »
    Is that with or without all the sex (rape) and human sacrifice that went along with it?

    Whatever the people want to do themselves let them off..aslong as I am on burning raft/boat in the middle of a lake/river/sea I don't give damn :P


  • #59
    gctest50
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    Martonio wrote: »
    There is a lot to be said about donating your body to medical science.
    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32145.Stiff

    This is a great book about what sort of science your body is contributing to. It is a great read and very funny.

    Bit of a shortage of them i think atm.


  • #60
    Vincent Vega
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    jos28 wrote: »
    Because we get laid to rest not stood to rest !

    Oh, we'll get stood upon.

    A few times a week.
    By the ever present, disrespectful and unlearned nieces and nephews of extended families, decidedly lounging together upon our gravesite.
    Kicking lumps out of the little statuette and stealing the majority of them little coloured stones for the fishtank back home.
    All in order to avoid feigning any more interest during the 4th hour of the bi-annual gathering for a funeral of some distant relative none of them were encouraged to know or care about in life.


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  • #61
    Chinasea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭Chinasea


    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    its comments like that,which make me want to buy two plots just to spite you hippies.


    perhaps even ask for a discount for early entry;);)


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