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^^^ you cant have both............ which is it to be?
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If running out of land becomes a problem ... you they can always just turn the desrt into a burial ground. Pack them in reaal tight.
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they say after 100 years that land is re-used anyway.
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mad scientist, good idea.... bury in the desert
id also plant a tree on top..... dont wanna waste those nutrients..and eventually we can can have a whole forest of trees to be made into toilet paper.
what do those recycled paper paper packs have on the
oh yes
Made from renewable wood sources.
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haha wasnt there an epsisode of csi or something like that.. but i think i also saw it on the news.
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I think we hijacked Mem's thread and diverted it............ sorry mem!
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who cares about the bugs underground? once we're dead, it's not like we stay in our bodies.
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I sincerely hope for your sake, what you say is true!
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All the advocates of cremation, should seriously look into the Parsi method of burial...feeding the dead to the vultures......
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Unfortunately for the Parsi's in India, the vulture population is has decreased.... this is because they also eat little finch type birds which are a eat the seeds that the farmers sow.... who in turn feed the little birds toxins to kill them, the vultures eat these birds and then die themsemselves.
Doesnt bode well for the dead body on top of the pillar.
However the parsi's are looking at ways to overcome this problem.
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Yes, that is the case, they are thinking about introducing Tazy Devils in the hills of Mumbai to overcome the dwindling vulture populacion in/around Mumbai....
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Che,
there are other options if you like
you can become a testcrash dummy
or you can have your body frozen in liquid nitrogen, when it is frozen solid it can be smashed into smithereens, frozen again
and then used as plant fertiliser.
we are extremely lucky in this day and age to have more choices than our ancestors, Dont'ya think;)
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So far i read they say cremation is the best way to dispose human body. Ofcourse it doesnt consume land and is not that expensive. In usa it is becomming very popular. they burn ya and then make a faux coral reef out of them.
Back in the days when when burial and cremation were "invented" the population was far less and both were feasible. now imagine how much land will it consume to bury all the humans or how much wood it would consume to cremate. If we bury then in next 100 years there will be no land left for living and if we cremate then all the woods will be gone.
I support the idea to use human body to use as a resource in a respected way. I mean cremate using electric furnace and use the ashes.
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Here are some of famous people who did it
ASHES TO ASHES
Einstein
Gandhi
Actor Marlon Brando
Chinese leader Zhao
Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh
List of fictional people who were cremated.
Modern fiction - film
Branmer - Babylon 5 episode Legacies - (exact method not known)
Denethor - The Return of the King (self-immolation on a pyre)
Donny - The Big Lebowski
Kikyo - Inuyasha (pyre)
"Grandpa" Gustafson - "Grumpier Old Men" - (crematorium)
Qui-Gon Jinn - The Phantom Menace - (pyre)
Darth Vader - Return of the Jedi - (pyre)
Xena -- Xena: Warrior Princess
Valeria -- Conan the Barbarian (pyre)
Modern fiction - literature
Denethor - The Return of the King (self-immolation on a pyre)
Sam McGee - "The Cremation of Sam McGee" (improvised crematorium)
Aimee Thanatogenos -- "The Loved One", Evelyn Waugh (crematorium)
The crew of Red Dwarf (radioactive blast)
Mythology
Beowulf -- "Beowulf" (pyre)
Hector -- "The Illiad", Homer (pyre)
Achilles -- Greek mythology (pyre)
Hercules -- Greek mythology (self-immolation on pyre