Shouldn't Our Live Tiger Mascots Be Buried or Entombed on Campus?

Mike is such an LSU traditon that no doubt will continue as long as there is an LSU. Mike's habitat has arches out to Mike XX, which LSU may not see for another century.

What happens when a mascot dies? Are the remains incinerated and then unceremoniously dumped?

I think Mike VI and all future Mikes should be entombed on campus. I don't know where there's room in the Tiger Stadium-PMAC-habitat area even to bury urns with tiger ashes, much less the uncremated remains of 500-700 pound tigers.

I envision a nice mausoleum type spot where the Mikes' burial urns could be entombed, somewhere around the front of Tiger Stadium, maybe around the plaques for past Tiger football teams, or perhaps in the wall of Tiger Stadium itself. It would be dignified and a fitting resting place for all future Mikes, who are such a part of LSU.

There is precedent, since Mike I is still on campus in Foster Hall. I wouldn't be for stuffing every future Mike and lining them up like a taxidermy shop though.

I do think a nice entombment wall for the urns with ashes of all future Mikes would be dignified and add to LSU tradition--certainly better than unceremoniously dumping the ashes of our live mascots that have meant so much to every LSU student since 1936.