if we cover the planet in them yea but otherwise we would use other methods instead
Eventually even bones decay, unless fossilized, and fossilized bones are just, well, fancy rocks. So it’s not like human remains stick around forever.
Here in the Netherlands, you(r family) often lease(s) a spot on a graveyard. When people stop paying, your corpse gets dug up and whatever remains is disposed of (often cremated). If there’s plenty of space, the graveyard will probably leave the existing graves be, but if they fill up, there’s not much you can do. City graveyards in particular run into this.
According to various faiths, you’re not going to heaven if your body doesn’t get buried properly or if your body isn’t there when the end times come. Muslim communities have come together to form a forever-graveyard where their loved ones will supposedly be buried forever because existing graveyards couldn’t make any promises like that. I doubt those graveyards will last more than a hundred years, but at least the intent is there. Other communities will try to make sure people are buried in other countries where exhuming corpses isn’t standard practice.
So it depends on the space available to your community. Don’t expect to be buried forever in the middle of the city unless you have some special status, but if you live out in the middle of nowhere your body could lay there for hundreds of years. Lots of people get cremated too, so that helps a lot.
But muslims don’t embalm their deceased bodies, right? They also don’t use coffins, so eventually the remains will decompose with nothing remains? How long it took for unpreserved buried bodies to completely decompose?
How long it took for unpreserved buried bodies to completely decompose?
That is very dependent on the temperature, soil, humidity etc. E.g. a regularly wet, huminose soil at moderate temperatures will decompose anything much quicker than dry desert sand.
No. Typically you only rent a plot in a graveyard for 10-30 years, and unless you or your heir(s) extend the lease, the graves will be dug up and used again. By that time most of the old casket and body have disintegrated to a pile of crumbling bones. Those will either be taken out and fully incinerated, or if the decay is progressed to a point where not much is left to begin with, a thin layer of soil covers the remnants and the new casket will simply be put on top.
It’s also getting more and more “fashionable” to get incinerated right away, so that’s really a non-issue.
Utterly deranged way of dealing with the dead imo; stick em in the ground for a little bit like they’re kimchi? Just skip ahead to the incineration part for me, thanks
I highly recommend checking out the catacombs in Paris. It gives you a very clear understanding about what humans do to graveyards when they want the space. There are literally millions of skeletons just thrown down there. Some are stacked in interesting ways, like walls of femurs and piles of skulls. But the vast, vast majority are just heaped into big ass piles of random bones.
Personally, visiting them sold me on the idea of cremation. Otherwise, it’s only a matter of time before your graveyard is getting dug up and they’re throwing your remains in a pile with some randos.
Being part of a big pile of bones that can freak out tourists is actually convincing me that being buried is better than being cremated.
of that’s an idea youre keen on, you could put it into a… loving will, or equivalent, and your will, anyway dwaath and end of life related documents. also appoint an exuctioner for those that you trust to make those bone post death art poecehappen, or anyway to try their best to make those wishes for coming part of a future grand skellie pyramid arform, or something along those lines, happen.
yiu never know, it may well be possible to make those dreams sooner, after a nk doubt long on the Future and death, than anticipated., and making some arrangements ahead of time can improve your chances, and possibly be a fun exercise in itself. ‘tge order of the good death’, has some useful resource on the whole planning and documents thing, espially on a North America context.
anyway. happy for you future artistic and collective bone combination ambitions for ’ your future postmortem bones. rip. ☠️💀🦴🦴💀💀🦴🦴💀☠️👻👻👻👻👻👻🦴👻
Why do we even have graveyards? Embalming chemicals leach out and poison water tables, carbon footprint is horrendous, land is wasted for superstitious nonsense. Just cremate and scatter the ashes.
https://slate.com/technology/2022/10/cemeteries-drinking-tap-water-pollution-aquifers-dead-bodies.html , among others.
Fucking bullshit that I can’t have my relatives eat my corpse when I’m dead. Land of the free my (glazed and roasted) ass
If you amputate a bit beforehand you can enjoy some with them.
yeah. like that peron who had, it would seem, -( for medical reasons, a and by a mediacl professional) a part of their… I think foot, amputated. They decided to keep the remains, and then… well, there’s a thought process, aintrestomg discussions, and a banquet, in the story. There’s a vice news interview about it, from some years ago, if I recall.
edit: this seems to be it https://www.vice.com/en/article/gykmn7/legal-ethical-cannibalism-human-meat-tacos-reddit-wtf might need to scroll doa bit to get to the story.
Exactly what I had in mind!
