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Gravesites are becoming more and more scarce. With
over 5 billion perople alive today, what if we all decide
we prefer burial to cremation? The solution is high rise
cemeatries.
It's a building dedicated to the dead. On each level is a
number of preapred graves, built into the floor.
Simply
place casket in the hole and cover with regulation 6ft of
dirt. Add a memorial on top. There can be piped music,
water features, internal landscaping, mood lighting, you
name it.(imagine the entire floor in darkness and just a
single spotlight illuminating the grave of your loved
one...!) Naturally, the upper floors would be more
expensive, being closer to God(!). And if you have the
money, the penthouse level is an entire floor dedicated
to your shirine, with views to die for (and coded access
to keep out the riff-raff).
(?) Prague cemetary
http://www.talkingc...s/sights_jewish.htm
[FloridaManatee, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
Screw Coffins
http://www.popsci.c...s-ground-save-space
Coffin Screws [theircompetitor, Aug 09 2010]
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A Place to Die For... 2BR, South Exposure. D/w, intc, hi ceil. a/c, eik, 24 hr dm. Walk/wk. Conv trains. $1,800. Call 881-1888. |
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I wonder what folks do with dead people in Tokyo, where land is super expensive? |
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How is this different from a mausoleum? |
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Define mausoleum and I'll tell you. |
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I always though those "Self-Storage" places I see so often were just for that purpose. |
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Well, a reasonably typical mausoleum in my area has several sections each of which holds aproximately a 2x12x4 collection of niches each sized to hold a coffin. One end of every niche adjoins a walkable space, and each niche is capped with a stone face. If each niche takes up a total space of 30"x30"x96", they are stacked four high, and the sections are 8' apart, that would suggest that the total ground area required is about 7.5sqft per niche. If a mausoleum had multiple floors, the ground area could be correspondingly reduced. |
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Why dont we bury people upright? I mean you'd be able to cram a lot more bodies in to the ground that way. I know certain religions don't like the idea, but meh, it makes more sense doesn't it? |
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yes yes, japan. i beive japan has a mandatory cremation
law... bbut thats based on heresay, so dont quote me on
that, but i think your cremated and anytime someone
wants to visit your 'grave' they visit the family memorial
and put incense at the alter. being low on space they put
these shrine yards ontop of buildings now. i think. |
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myself, i dont want to be in a graveyard. i want to be
taken out to a nice field someplace that wont turn into a
mall anytime soon, maybe Amish country, and burried
there. but burried with/ontop of me would be a tree
seed or sapling. eather a very nice breed of tree or one
that grows into a twisted scary shape. the tree would
feed off my body as it grew and soon enough i'd be one
with the tree. |
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i'd choose a nice tree so people could use me for shade,
safe in the knowlage that my spirit is protecting them as
they enjoy their day. |
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or a big scary tree so kids would look at the tree, point,
and say "thats the death tree" then dare their friends to
climb me... at which point i steal their soul. |
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i cant decide, oh well, i've got time...i hope. |
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[supertcat] Right. If it was 50 stories high and made of steel & glass rather than stone, then yes I suppose it would be similar. Except that the graves are not stacked 4 deep; on each floor the graves are layed out in a grid type formation. |
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<pedantpolice> "...there ARE over 6 billion people alive today." </pedantpolice> |
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"that's the death tree, go on climb it, I dare you" |
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"Nah, I can't, I'm late for me tea" |
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"No, I'm not, it's just, just" |
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"I'm not! I'll climb it then.... I'll show you, you'll see." |
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And of course neither child was ever seen again. |
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I think you have to choose the death tree, HalfwayHebrew, it's so passe to be a nice happy protective tree spirit thing, so last season... |
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then its decided... i think a nice oak tree would work.
good and sturdy, creepy looking, climbable. i think its oak
i'm thinking of. |
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every now and then i'd need to leave one alive so he can
go and tell everyone the tree takes peoples souls,
otherwise the rumors would stop, and i cant have that. |
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need souls...mmmmmm....souls... |
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[C Trebor] well 6 billion is over 5 billion isn't it? |
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I have to vote for this as in some poem I wrote years ago I mention High Rise Mausoleums. If my sight was right it would happen, if not, where else will we live when the graveyards take over the earth? |
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[blissmiss]: Hey, thanks for noticing. And, yeah, I kinda have. Haven't been shooting in...damn...about 8 months. |
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Some might think it a sexist view, but I think femininity (as opposed to feminism) has a way of...domesticating...men. And me, the only male in a household of 4... |
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Damn their sneaking treachery! And to think, I haven't even missed it. I guess I'll have to make myself go, now, just for skill maintenance. Sort of like the way I keep my CPR certification current. |
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The old jewish cemetary in Prague contains about 100,000 burried over the years in layers. There's about 12,000 tombstones crammed into the top layer. Trees grow there. It's not a place I'd accept a dare to spend the night. |
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I first imagined helium filled coffins tethered together
like a balloon bouquet. In any case, it's refreshingly
surreal that this idea of being 'buried' is to "be raised." |
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Do like the Irish bury them then wait 20 years then bury the next one in the same place and add the name to the tome stone a set of 10 plots can do a small family for generations to come |
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It's been at least 7 years & when seeing the title, I still thought it was my idea - as I did 7 years ago. |
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Cremation is so yesterday... I want on my headstone "Yay... I got to sequester some carbon at last" |
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