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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For real. Cemeteries are such a waste of resources.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

there is no room for every body who is alive now

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

When I’m dead, don’t bury me at all
Just pickle my bones in alcohol
An amphora of wine at my head and feet
And then I’m sure my bones will keep

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Donate your body to science!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So now dying is more expensive?! What a crazy timeline

But really do you really want to be buried or stuck in a crypt for a few hundred years before we either dig up your bones for development or some natural disaster moves them anyway?

Burn me baby, feed me back in the recycler of Mother Earth without the stuffing around of being forgotten then recycled...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like the idea of people using ashes for a tree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's also the option of turning your remains into a diamond if you want ostentatiousness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dying is not more expensive, just the storage costs for your body if you want long-term accommodation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boomers be buying up investment graves

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Next thing they'll be renting them out. A yearly lease, and your family have to pay to have you dug up and moved every year so they can lease it to someone new. If they can't afford the costs you'll end up stashed in a secret warehouse with bales of "recycling" and barrels of unknown chemicals. The "efficiency" of capitalism at work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In Germany, if your family doesn't pay the upkeep, your headstone gets tossed and someone else is buried in top of you with a fresh headstone and decorations

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Burn me baby, feed me back in the recycler of Mother Earth

Even that's a waste of resources really. The planet doesn't need me as CO2. Just chuck me in a giant craypot and let me be crab food.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Compost me, let me be some tomatoes or something

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