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re: What Are Your Thoughts on The Modern Practicality of Cemeteries?
Posted on 8/8/19 at 5:25 pm to Dragoon
Posted on 8/8/19 at 5:25 pm to Dragoon
I think the modern ideas of the cemetery (with the cement tombs is dumb and needs to be modernized.
Set up the land but instead of tombs have the bodies cremated or at least not embalmed and “plant” them under some standardized tree variety to create an eventual forest. Have the same people come maintain and keep the areas clean and eventually you would have an enormous orchard of trees cut to form high ceilings and clear floors.
Set up the land but instead of tombs have the bodies cremated or at least not embalmed and “plant” them under some standardized tree variety to create an eventual forest. Have the same people come maintain and keep the areas clean and eventually you would have an enormous orchard of trees cut to form high ceilings and clear floors.
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Posted on 8/8/19 at 5:54 pm to SundayFunday
This is neither a new nor unique problem.
Here's a fun historical look back at how the problem has affected people in the past.
Listen to a Lore podcast about Burials and Cemetaries
Here's a fun historical look back at how the problem has affected people in the past.
Listen to a Lore podcast about Burials and Cemetaries
Posted on 8/8/19 at 6:30 pm to Dragoon
I'm being buried in the family crypt in Metairie Cemetery next to Al Copeland and 'em. I choose not to associate with the poors even in death. Thanks.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 6:37 pm to Deactived
Posted on 8/8/19 at 6:47 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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Metairie Cemetery
Fancy! My final resting place is St Rock Pawk, bruh. My dad said my grandfather did not like to spend money. One year when they went to freshen up the family plot on All Saints Day, but he didn’t have enough white paint so he just mixed the white with a little leftover red. The family plot was pink for years.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 7:06 pm to pjab
Used to want the full field grade send off at Arlington, until I attended a funeral for a co-worker there...,
My mother, her siblings, and spouses have all elected cremation...my parents’ ashes will be spread (probably) at the family camp...
as for me, my ashes will be placed in the family grave in Algiers next to my infant daughter, who will probably be the last conventional burial there (my great-great grandfather bought the plot in 1865 and has 5:generations buried there)...even going to use my dad’s and my godfathers burial flags for presentation to my girls...
My mother, her siblings, and spouses have all elected cremation...my parents’ ashes will be spread (probably) at the family camp...
as for me, my ashes will be placed in the family grave in Algiers next to my infant daughter, who will probably be the last conventional burial there (my great-great grandfather bought the plot in 1865 and has 5:generations buried there)...even going to use my dad’s and my godfathers burial flags for presentation to my girls...
This post was edited on 8/8/19 at 7:46 pm
Posted on 8/8/19 at 7:13 pm to vl100butch
They should just wet the ground down and turn cemetaries into monster truck mudpits.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 8:06 pm to Tiger in Gatorland
Since I have been fighting stage iv colon cancer for the past 3 years I have given this a lot of thought and even put it in my will as my final wishes.
I want to be cremated and have my ashes mixed with cement and oyster shells and dumped on the back side of Timbalier island. If I can't be alive, maybe my ashes can help create an artificial reef to help sustain life in one of my favorite places on earth.
I want to be cremated and have my ashes mixed with cement and oyster shells and dumped on the back side of Timbalier island. If I can't be alive, maybe my ashes can help create an artificial reef to help sustain life in one of my favorite places on earth.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:33 pm to Dragoon
I think we should just start boxing people up and blasting them off into space. Just imagine how much more fun funerals would be - everyone loves rockets. Saves real estate too.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:34 pm to Dragoon
Waste of space. Just toss my arse in the ocean.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:36 pm to Dragoon
As a former embalmer, I’m going to be cremated.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:38 pm to heatom2
quote:Why cremated? YOU won't be paying for it.
Its such a waste of money. I'm getting cremated fa sho.
If you do get cremated tell one of your relatives in advance to put some firecrackers in your pockets.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:38 pm to Dragoon
When I die just throw me in the trash
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:39 pm to Dragoon
Society is too mobile for cemeteries now. I hate the idea of abandoning a loved one's gravesite because of having to move. And I would hate to burden family with the upkeep or guilt of having to visit my gravesite. Not to mention, I wouldn't want my toxin-filled body polluting and taking up valuable earth. Cremation for me.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:40 pm to Dragoon
quote:Literally a dead issue.
Cemeteries
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:43 pm to soccerfüt
I’ve already told my offspring to cremate me and load me into 12 gauge shells and go teal hunting in Venice.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:50 pm to Dragoon
If Birmingham keeps it up, I’m gonna buy a 20 acre plot semi near downtown with a hearse. Supply and demand baby. Might open branches in NOLA, Jackson, and Memphis .
Posted on 8/8/19 at 10:01 pm to Dragoon
I’d honestly like to be shot into space. Just floating around.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 11:04 pm to Dragoon
I think it if gives people comfort to visit their loved ones’ gravesites I see no reason to discontinue the practice. Upon your passing it is not about you anymore....
Posted on 8/8/19 at 11:21 pm to Spankum
I think I read that some places ( Europe?) you only “rent” a plot for 50-100 years or so then they give it to someone else
I guess they cremate the old body?
I guess they cremate the old body?
This post was edited on 8/8/19 at 11:22 pm
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