Just have it drill downward, put some more dirt on the coffins, add another layer of coffins, and repeat!
But then you delve too deep and it’s balrogs, innit?
If a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemetery
Submitted 4 months ago by Gork@lemm.ee to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 months ago
KlavKalashj@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Only if the delving is also greedy
lud@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Not wanting to expand the cemetery or build more cemeteries is likely an economic incentive so it could be argued by the balrogs that it was greed.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
That’s called a mass grave
What are you up to?
ohmyiv@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What are you up to?
Their knees in bodies. OP needs to start their plan before they drown.
piecat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Or a catacomb
Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
That might make it difficult to visit the remains of a loved one, but I suppose you can just chuck your flowers in the pit and eventually they’ll work their way down.
Etterra@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean if you want to be maximally efficient about it just find it abandoned open pit mine in the middle of nowhere. You could dump all of the trash and corpses the human race has ever produced in it and barely even scratch the surface. Just one problem.
How the fuck are you going to pay for all the transportation expenses?
Oh yeah and dignity in death blah blah blah
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I often wondered about that. Humans have been around for 100,000 years or so and we’ve been putting people in graves for a much smaller portion of that, but it seems we would have an awful lot of graves at this point. But we don’t. You don’t come across cemeteries very often and when you do they’re not enormous.
SO WHERE ARE ALL THE BODIES?
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Did you think graves were perpetual?
I’m sorry to bake your noodle on this one, but when you get buried you’ll get 6 years tops before the site is recycled for the next person.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think cremation or donation to science should be mandatory. you can still visit a grave, just a smaller urn. or set them free in their favorite spot, turned into a tree, diamond, etc. a 3x6 foot plot of land that is now useless is stupid in my opinion. at least going to science they can learn more and train new talent.
DrownedRats@lemmy.world 4 months ago
When I die, I want my body donated to a university astrophysics lab. I’m either going to space or getting blown up trying!
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 months ago
They have vertical graves in many places worldwide actually.
Gork@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Mm yes but these would be fully automated luxury grave space communal resting places.
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The best is still returning the dead to nature.
Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Combine this with the worlds deepest goldmine and we have a winner.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 months ago
What do you do with the displaced dirt?
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
- Profit
lechatron@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Fend off the dirt man.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 months ago
Is he weak to his own element like Metal Man?
PineRune@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Feed the homeless. /s
kholby@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What do they do with it now? OP’s death tunnel is being filled back in with dirt and coffins, so there should be 1 coffin’s worth of displaced dirt per body, the same as with current burial practices.
db2@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Forbidden tiramisu
10_0@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Mass grave. But if you mean something like that underground bike storage in the Netherlands, than if could be done and would need expanding every so often or have the tombstones moved somewhere else
finley@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I have always thought extremely strange that we bury our dead.
notabot@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It’s a safe and reliable way to dispose of a corpse that might be diseased, will smell bad as it decomposes, and would certainly attract scavengers if left lying around. The same goes for cremation, it really just depends on local custom.
finley@lemm.ee 4 months ago
i feel it necessary to remind you that it’s 2024, and you’re using a computer to communicate on a global telecommunications network which runs on electricity and digital information.
volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 4 months ago
If you think about it it is not strange at all, it is maybe one of the very early things that differentiated us from animals. We have a concept of death and time, future and loss. We mourn our dead. And I strongly believe that all the rituals that we have established are not meant for the dead but in fact serve the living. It is a way to cope with the loss of a person. And with the ever same ways - casket, flowers, music, burying - we give the mourning something to do and get distracted so that they don’t lose themselves in the sadness. It feels “right” because it feels familiar, everyone does it this way. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time someone dies. How to cope, and how to get rid of the body? Well, there is a societal playbook for that.
There was a dude here on lemmy who actually specialized in American death rites. I think he stopped using lemmy though because of too much negativity, I think people commenting how stupid it is that we don’t just trash our dead on a post was his tipping point. Which is a freaking shame because it sounds like he knew some really fascinating things.
finley@lemm.ee 4 months ago
lots of animals mourn their dead, even ritualistically. humans aren’t special in that way. not to mention that, even among humans, burying the dead is not the only practice. many cultures practice marine burials (dumping the corpse in a body of water), or, more popularly, cremation. many carry out these manners of disposal with no ritual at all.
Grief and mourning don’t necessitate a burial. other manners of corpse disposal can allow those who remain to process grief, and some can even provide a location for family and friends to visit in memorium.
PineRune@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Leaving a carcass in the wild would attract scavengers and spread disease, which is prevented by inhumation. Cremation is also an option but requires a large amount of fuel. In early and prehistoric cultures, inhumation was the easy option.
yol@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Go a step further and install every layer of coffins into I big vertical conveyor belt and you can rotate it around to get the next level once one gets too full.
AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s one heck of a shower thought!
DrownedRats@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Na, too wasteful. Instead, just cement everyone into one of those concrete arches that tunnel boring machines poop out behind them and turn those corpses into tunnels. You still get to be buried but you’re also doing something useful in death!
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That would created weak concrete in the exact place you absolutely do not want weak concrete.
immutable@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I think it’s a shame that when we figured out skyscrapers we didn’t start doing that with the dead. Catacombs in the sky reaching to the heavens.
I’m gonna go pay my respects to grandma she’s in the towns bonescraper. Smash cut to a giant tower made of skeletons.
Aliens come down to that kind of society, they’d want to party with us because that’s metal as fuck
Daze@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
When I die please arrange my remains on the Bonescraper in the essence of a skeletal gargoyle ty
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We tried that before and we ended up with ghost Pokémon. Is that what you want?
Fanghole@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Yes
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 months ago
could you imagine a skyscraper of coffins & skeletons collapsing? LOL would be fucking nuts
Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You want metal as fuck? Check out these dudes and dudettes
culturacolectiva.com/…/manene-death-ritual-indone…
lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Holy sh…
Badeendje@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well have you seen some of the catacombs we do have. Skull piles, bone art, all pretty metal right there too. But not a skyscraper metal.
cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Like this one in Brazil?
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Have a big reservoir at the bottom that collects all the water runoff and uses it for the city water supply.
Bone water. Yummy.