“Fuck lawns” energy, but for graveyards. (no not like that, stoppit!)
Or postmortem services in general. If you want to give something to someone, do it when they’re still around to appreciate it. Once they’re dead, they won’t give a fuck about the fancy funeral or coffin or w/e you bought for em.
Graveyards are a waste of land. In many areas, embalming chemicals leach out and poison the water table. If you must use the land for mourning, cremate the body, bury the cremains, and plant a tree.
I am tempted to agree with you, I mean we’re going to run out of graveyard space if we keep it up. We need something like crypts for all the graves from several hundreds of years ago to move into, and then we need to keep on moving people from graveyards into crypts ad infinitum - this way we could still provide graveyard space to people who are remembered by living relatives. I’d say the cut-off could be 3 or 4 generations.
Of more importance to peoples’ descendants long term is having good documentation of who their ancestors were, when they were born, married, and died (see websites like: https://www.freebmd2.org.uk/ , if you need this information yourself. this one is UK and i don’t know about any american one, sorry.)
As long as you have that information for your records, a grave for your great great great something is not important.
“Fuck lawns” energy, but for graveyards. (no not like that, stoppit!)
Or postmortem services in general. If you want to give something to someone, do it when they’re still around to appreciate it. Once they’re dead, they won’t give a fuck about the fancy funeral or coffin or w/e you bought for em.
As someone who makes out with goth girls: no, we need cemeteries. They’re just really edgy parks
All post death stuff is for those still living, to
phelp them cope*edit: I’m a careless typer
Functionally yes, but those partaking generally see it as a gesture for the deceased, not therapy in disguise.
I’m all for therapy, it’s just the way we go about it in this context is stupid and wasteful.
Graveyards are a waste of land. In many areas, embalming chemicals leach out and poison the water table. If you must use the land for mourning, cremate the body, bury the cremains, and plant a tree.
Human cremains are too acidic to make good growing soil.
Mulch the body, bury the mulch, plant a tree.
cremains, nice. Its not often anymore that I learn a legit new word. Thank you kid sir or madame.
we’re probably too salty too.
human composting has come a long way. it’s what i want them to do with me after the med school is done learning whatever they can.
I am tempted to agree with you, I mean we’re going to run out of graveyard space if we keep it up. We need something like crypts for all the graves from several hundreds of years ago to move into, and then we need to keep on moving people from graveyards into crypts ad infinitum - this way we could still provide graveyard space to people who are remembered by living relatives. I’d say the cut-off could be 3 or 4 generations.
Of more importance to peoples’ descendants long term is having good documentation of who their ancestors were, when they were born, married, and died (see websites like: https://www.freebmd2.org.uk/ , if you need this information yourself. this one is UK and i don’t know about any american one, sorry.)
As long as you have that information for your records, a grave for your great great great something is not important.