Why do we bury the dead? (1 Viewer)

[Apple Jack]

This has never made sense to me. Life comes from light. If you want to return a human to what gave it life, burying it is illogical.

 

[offdee]

And its a huge waste of money. Burn me up into smithereens.

 

[T Bell]

This has never made sense to me. Life comes from light. If you want to return a human to what gave it life, burying it is illogical.

Mom's womb is a non-starter.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

I assume it started for sanitary reasons.

 

[sporthenry]

I imagine it is some combination of not seeing your family member's body get eaten in plain sight combined with the smells and potential diseases that dead bodies can have.

 

[simey]

Please don't bury me, down in that cold cold ground

I'm gonna have them chop me up, and pass me all around

Throw my brain in a hurricane, and the blind can take my eyes

And the deaf can take both of my ears, if they don't mind the size

 

[Apple Jack]

I imagine it is some combination of not seeing your family member's body get eaten in plain sight combined with the smells and potential diseases that dead bodies can have.

Exactly. We living folks don't like to be bothered. It is, after all, all about us.

 

[T Bell]

I imagine it is some combination of not seeing your family member's body get eaten in plain sight combined with the smells and potential diseases that dead bodies can have.

Exactly. We living folks don't like to be bothered. It is, after all, all about us.

You seem pretty outraged by this. What alternative are you proposing exactly?

 

[Apple Jack]

I imagine it is some combination of not seeing your family member's body get eaten in plain sight combined with the smells and potential diseases that dead bodies can have.

Exactly. We living folks don't like to be bothered. It is, after all, all about us.

You seem pretty outraged by this. What alternative are you proposing exactly?

No outrage. Just doesn't add up for me. I'm more from the HST school of thought. Ashes shot from a canon by my people makes much more sense to me than trying to act like we were born of the Earth like a cantaloupe.

 

[sporthenry]

I imagine it is some combination of not seeing your family member's body get eaten in plain sight combined with the smells and potential diseases that dead bodies can have.

Exactly. We living folks don't like to be bothered. It is, after all, all about us.

Well considering they're dead, yes, it is about us living people. I'd imagine they would feel the same way unless they were selfish #######s who want to pass on diseases even after they die.

 

[The Kerminator]

This has never made sense to me. Life comes from light. If you want to return a human to what gave it life, burying it is illogical.

No outrage. Just doesn't add up for me. I'm more from the HST school of thought. Ashes shot from a canon by my people makes much more sense to me than trying to act like we were born of the Earth like a cantaloupe.

Yeah, burying a dead body is illogical.

 

[T Bell]

I imagine it is some combination of not seeing your family member's body get eaten in plain sight combined with the smells and potential diseases that dead bodies can have.

Exactly. We living folks don't like to be bothered. It is, after all, all about us.

You seem pretty outraged by this. What alternative are you proposing exactly?

No outrage. Just doesn't add up for me. I'm more from the HST school of thought. Ashes shot from a canon by my people makes much more sense to me than trying to act like we were born of the Earth like a cantaloupe.

So for those of us living in a big city it's supposed to sound like the 1812 Overture all the time because burying people is too dark?

 

[Apple Jack]

I imagine it is some combination of not seeing your family member's body get eaten in plain sight combined with the smells and potential diseases that dead bodies can have.

Exactly. We living folks don't like to be bothered. It is, after all, all about us.

You seem pretty outraged by this. What alternative are you proposing exactly?

No outrage. Just doesn't add up for me. I'm more from the HST school of thought. Ashes shot from a canon by my people makes much more sense to me than trying to act like we were born of the Earth like a cantaloupe.

So for those of us living in a big city it's supposed to sound like the 1812 Overture all the time because burying people is too dark?

There are open spaces in the universe outside New York City. Maybe you don't know that, but it's true.

 

[T Bell]

I imagine it is some combination of not seeing your family member's body get eaten in plain sight combined with the smells and potential diseases that dead bodies can have.

Exactly. We living folks don't like to be bothered. It is, after all, all about us.

You seem pretty outraged by this. What alternative are you proposing exactly?

No outrage. Just doesn't add up for me. I'm more from the HST school of thought. Ashes shot from a canon by my people makes much more sense to me than trying to act like we were born of the Earth like a cantaloupe.

So for those of us living in a big city it's supposed to sound like the 1812 Overture all the time because burying people is too dark?

There are open spaces in the universe outside New York City. Maybe you don't know that, but it's true.

I live nowhere near New York. Regardless, most people live in urban areas anyway.

How far should we compel people to drive to witness the launching of their relatives into the atmosphere?

 

[AAABatteries]

Soylent green is people!!

 

[timschochet]

Cemeteries can make a LOT of money. It's a good business!

 

[Hilts]

I imagine it is some combination of not seeing your family member's body get eaten in plain sight combined with the smells and potential diseases that dead bodies can have.

Exactly. We living folks don't like to be bothered. It is, after all, all about us.

You seem pretty outraged by this. What alternative are you proposing exactly?

No outrage. Just doesn't add up for me. I'm more from the HST school of thought. Ashes shot from a canon by my people makes much more sense to me than trying to act like we were born of the Earth like a cantaloupe.

So for those of us living in a big city it's supposed to sound like the 1812 Overture all the time because burying people is too dark?

Forget the noise. We're supposed to have it rain ashes from the sky 24/7 like it's a modern day Auschwitz?

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

Burying the live is illegal

 

[timschochet]

Burying the live is illegal

Unless you're Ricardo Montabaln.

 

[HughHoney]

Because they taste like ####.

 

[DaVinci]

Buzzards got to eat, same as worms.

 

[renesauz]

Burying a body makes sense. The lengthy embalming process, spending thousands on the box, and almost as much on a 25 square foot plot of dirt and memorial rock are the stupid part. Some places go even further requiring a concrete box around the wooden one in the ground- ridiculous scam.

 

[msommer]

I imagine it is some combination of not seeing your family member's body get eaten in plain sight combined with the smells and potential diseases that dead bodies can have.

Exactly. We living folks don't like to be bothered. It is, after all, all about us.

You seem pretty outraged by this. What alternative are you proposing exactly?

No outrage. Just doesn't add up for me. I'm more from the HST school of thought. Ashes shot from a canon by my people makes much more sense to me than trying to act like we were born of the Earth like a cantaloupe.

So for those of us living in a big city it's supposed to sound like the 1812 Overture all the time because burying people is too dark?

Forget the noise. We're supposed to have it rain ashes from the sky 24/7 like it's a modern day Auschwitz?

Creepy. But do it enough and we can block out the sun a bit and lower the temperature.

Are we allowed to use the heat spent burning people to warm water or produce electricity or should it just be wasted?

 

[Rayderr]

I imagine it is some combination of not seeing your family member's body get eaten in plain sight combined with the smells and potential diseases that dead bodies can have.

Exactly. We living folks don't like to be bothered. It is, after all, all about us.

You seem pretty outraged by this. What alternative are you proposing exactly?

No outrage. Just doesn't add up for me. I'm more from the HST school of thought. Ashes shot from a canon by my people makes much more sense to me than trying to act like we were born of the Earth like a cantaloupe.

So for those of us living in a big city it's supposed to sound like the 1812 Overture all the time because burying people is too dark?

Forget the noise. We're supposed to have it rain ashes from the sky 24/7 like it's a modern day Auschwitz?

Creepy. But do it enough and we can block out the sun a bit and lower the temperature.

Are we allowed to use the heat spent burning people to warm water or produce electricity or should it just be wasted?

Cremators double nicely as a brick pizza oven.

 

[Osaurus]

Maybe revert back to what a lot of ancient folks did and put them in trees or on scaffolds and pick away at their flesh daily. Seems legit.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Because the living object and they keep trying to scramble out of the hole.

 

[Galileo]

I'd like to have my remains launched into space.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Sanitation. Adding nutrients back to the earth.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Burying a body makes sense. The lengthy embalming process, spending thousands on the box, and almost as much on a 25 square foot plot of dirt and memorial rock are the stupid part. Some places go even further requiring a concrete box around the wooden one in the ground- ridiculous scam.

31.5 sq ft

and most if not all require a vault ("concrete box")

 

[Rayderr]

Burying a body makes sense. The lengthy embalming process, spending thousands on the box, and almost as much on a 25 square foot plot of dirt and memorial rock are the stupid part. Some places go even further requiring a concrete box around the wooden one in the ground- ridiculous scam.

31.5 sq ft

and most if not all require a vault ("concrete box")

But it's still a bit ridiculous to spend an extra $3k on the Eterna-Rest 5000 just so you're loved one will be comfortable.

 

[Timmay]

Burn me up in a 55 gallon drum. I don't care what you do with my ashes.

 

[Hang 10]

To keep them from stinking up the joint.

 

[Chaka]

Burying a body makes sense. The lengthy embalming process, spending thousands on the box, and almost as much on a 25 square foot plot of dirt and memorial rock are the stupid part. Some places go even further requiring a concrete box around the wooden one in the ground- ridiculous scam.

Total scam.

Don't they require the concrete because the embalming fluids are so toxic?

Bury people naturally, no chemicals, no box and let the decomposing bodies help propagate life.

 

[Chaka]

Sanitation. Adding nutrients back to the earth.

I'm not sure how nutritious embalming fluid is.

 

[Jobber]

Cremeation for this guy. I don't want some futuristic grave robber picking through my coffin for my Rolex and smoking jacket.

 

[E Street Brat]

Buzzards got to eat, same as worms.

ETA

at AJ's failed attempt at trolling for Bible thumpers,

 

[DiStefano]

Cremation sounds great until you realize it is contributing to global warming. It seems crazy that your last legacy is to make the world a worse place.

 

[Tom Servo]

Cremeation for this guy. I don't want some futuristic grave robber picking through my coffin for my Rolex and smoking jacket.

After awhile, all that'll be in my coffin are my bones and heart valve.

 

[Rayderr]

Cremation sounds great until you realize it is contributing to global warming. It seems crazy that your last legacy is to make the world a worse place.

So leaving the same way I entered then.

 

[Mr. Know-It-All]

I am all on board with mass graves assuming no use of embalming fluids that might leech into the groundwater. Cemeteries are so ridiculous - I get people need closure but what a money grab. Within a few generations does anyone still visit these monuments? The relationship is meaningless the farther it is removed.

 

[D in the D]

To keep them from stinking up the joint.

Coughlin's Law.

 

[Apple Jack]

I'm liking the family cannon idea more and more.

 

[NCCommish]

The reason we bury our dead is based on a couple of things. First we have an ego and seeing one of our own picked at by carrion eaters offends that ego. Second the two primary religions(Islam and Christianity) call for burial in their scriptures.

 

[Two Deep]

Dump em all in the ocean.

 

[Juxtatarot]

So you don't have to see Uncle Caveman's bones when you go down to the watering hole.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

"Country clubs and cemeteries are the biggest wasters of prime real estate"

 

[Chaka]

There is no reason that we shouldn't be able to bury our dead without caskets or embalming fluids, and while we're at it why can't I bury my dead on my property?

 

[Raider Nation]

Burying the live is illegal

Unless you're Ricardo Montabaln.

Or Leslie Nielsen.

(o/u on the number of people who get this reference: 2.5)

 

[NCCommish]

There is no reason that we shouldn't be able to bury our dead without caskets or embalming fluids, and while we're at it why can't I bury my dead on my property?

For the same reason I can't sell you a casket direct in most states. Money.

 

[Chaka]

Burying the live is illegal

Unless you're Ricardo Montabaln.

Or Leslie Nielsen.

(o/u on the number of people who get this reference: 2.5)

Poor Ted.