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STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fun fact! Caskets in the US are sealed inside vaults, either concrete or metal, because they aren’t strong enough to hold up to dirt anyway. Also most caskets are metal these days. They’ll last long enough to be exhumed and moved elsewhere for land reclamation in a few centuries.

  (A family friend runs a company that makes/sells the vaults)

  No idea about modern Vulcan burials, though. They might be better off doing the Dune thing for the water.

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  • STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for your knowledge, I was basing mine off of historical/archeological burial methods

    Seems kinda selfish not to let the wood and body rot into the ground. That is the basis of the soil lifecycle is it not?

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    • RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh it’s absolutely a racket and a wasteful industry relying on sentimentality, religion, and mourning families.

      I’d be all for throwing our corpses into grinders and (after some sanitation, no doubt) feeding crops or something, assuming any transplantable organs and any scientific work were done with them. But I’m certainly in a tiny minority.

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