Recycling Caskets & Graves!

[Narz]

With our diminishing forests worldwide, does it really make sense to kill more trees and waste more non-renewable resources to manufacture new caskets?

Just dig up mofos from the 18, 19th and early 20th century that no one cares about anymore (and who are mostly rotted), dump 'em out and reuse their boxes.

I don't see the big deal about caskets being new & clean, I mean it's for a dead body for cirssake.

What say? Do you want your greiving family to have to shell out the big bucks for a new casket and graveyard real estate (taking away space from wild habitats even in your demise) or will you make the choice to take over the shift from some old timer who's served his time? (or other!?)

This is a serious issues, if you care about your planet (or "God's" planet, it's time to rethink every ritual, habit & idea you now take for granted. Show your dedication & don't let yourself die in vain. Go out with a messege!

...yeah, I'm bored. But this is a serious thread!

 

[Lotus49]

Ever heard of the Paris catacombs?

 

[Narz]

Now that's efficiency!

 

[Halcyon]

What do you think happens to a wooden box left buried in damp soil for two hundred years?

 

[Verbose]

Am I reading this thread (and the one about burying foetuses or not) wrong, but is casket funerals somehow the norm where most of you guys live?

Maybe it's the Scandinavians being odd here, but why the devil don't you just incinerate the bally lot?

Very hygenic, and you can put the remnants in a recycleable cardboard box for burial. Everyone ends up the same in their graves. It's the stone that matters to people anyway.

 

[Halcyon]

Maybe it's the Scandinavians being odd here, but why the devil don't you just incinerate the bally lot?

Think of the greenhouse emissions, though. It'd be far more environmentally sensitive to just recycle the bodies.

 

[QuoVadisNation]

This is a serious issues, if you care about your planet (or "God's" planet, it's time to rethink every ritual, habit & idea you now take for granted. Show your dedication & don't let yourself die in vain. Go out with a messege!

pfft. Everyone knows the bible says that man kind are to master and exploit mother Earth as much as possible until Jesus Christ comes back to earth on his chariot of fire to save all the real Christians, while all the godless heathens burn forever in the boils of hell. amen.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Ancient greek custom : removal of the dead after a set time period (i think its 250 years) carefully wash the remains in water and wine. The bones are then reinburied in specific mass mausolarium (each body is stored in a small box)

 

[Verbose]

Think of the greenhouse emissions, though. It'd be far more environmentally sensitive to just recycle the bodies.

That would be some kind of "aerial burial" like the Tibetans do, feeding the dead to wild animals.

But I'm still wondering why casket burials looks like the default option here?

 

[Pannonius]

How about the Soylent Green? Let's feed the world!

 

[Erik Mesoy]

With our diminishing forests worldwide, does it really make sense to kill more trees and waste more non-renewable resources to manufacture new caskets?
<snip>
...yeah, I'm bored. But this is a serious thread!

Oh really?

Yes it makes sense, and the caskets should be made non-rotting. Trees bind carbon; preferably you want to plant new trees where you cut down the old ones and keep carbon bound in the form of caskets.

 

[FriendlyFire]

That would be some kind of "aerial burial" like the Tibetans do, feeding the dead to wild animals.

But I'm still wondering why casket burials looks like the default option here?

watching monks hack up dead bodies and laying strips of flesh and bones out on rocks isnt the most dignified way of buriel considering the masses of humans passing away each day. (compared with the relatively small numbers in tibet)

 

[Halcyon]

Well, you could boil off the flesh and use the bones for fetching interior designs. The soup could be used as a renewable, eco-friendly fertiliser for the production of high-quality blood-grown foods. Not only does it reduce our dependence on fossil fuels for food production, but it also returns valuable minerals to the soil, and thus making the crop healthier to eat.

Admit it, it's a brilliant idea.

 

[Pannonius]

Well, you could boil off the flesh and use the bones for fetching interior designs. The soup could be used as a renewable, eco-friendly fertiliser for the production of high-quality blood-grown foods. Not only does it reduce our dependence on fossil fuels for food production, but it also returns valuable minerals to the soil, and thus making the crop healthier to eat.

Admit it, it's a brilliant idea.

That church is sooooo sick and cool.

 

[Swedishguy]

The chemicals released when recycling all those boxes means you end up with less trees.

Recycling is overrated.

 

[Jawz II]

How about recycling the people in the caskets?

Its 2007 already and I haven't tasted one single Soylent Green.

 

[White Elk]

I want to be buried in the ground without a box and a tree planted
just above me. Let its roots gain sustenance from my decaying shell.

Since people seem to be so uptight about moving bodies and desecrating graves.. perhaps some of Americas ancient Redwood and Oak forests could be saved by turning them into graveyards. Plant a corpse in a copse of trees and save our forests ;~O

Seriously though, what better monument than a living tree for survivors to come and visit their dead?

 

[Murky]

You know there actually is a "green" way to be buried.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-cemetery

 

[chinesefireball]

In Australia it is actually possible to get burried in a card board box. Although they are very expenseive card board boxes (a few hundred)

 

[EdCase]

How dare you suggest this !

Since I have every intention of returning as a brain-eating zombie once Hell is full...I'll need my box to hangout in until its time.
This is obviously an insidious plot to undermine the zombie revolution.

Seriously though...cremation is the way to go, then my kids can keep me on the bookshelf,flush me,scatter me to the wind. (doesn't matter to me..I'll be dead)