High Rise Tomb

The traditional Southern African burial custom is to put the deceased in a sitting position, and cover the hole with stones. In some places when there are heavy rains, the bones come back to visit.

In Madagascar, the deceased is put in a "house" - replica of one, suitable for what the Springbok Nude Girls might've called afterlife satisfaction.

Those two ideas come together to form a solution for the problem of eventually running out of burial space that will trouble future generations, and which thus needs to be planned for. Extend the Malagassy funerary "house" to a funerary "apartment", but to save space, let all the deceased members of a family share .. er .. unliving space??

When we're dead (and also scared of being burnt for Vishnu or Odin - or Richard Dawkins) we could go and sit nice and peacefully on a bench next to dear old Dad, and granny, and the rest of them. Perhaps there's a nice window in front of us. Perhaps we are plastinated by the techniques of Gunther Von Hagens. (There are all sorts of ways in which we could .. be dead .. better than by being deep under the ground among the worms).

The living could then visit the dead more easily. In African traditional culture such visits are important, so this may be even bakable one day, here. There would need to be facilities for sacrificing cattle, too... but that's getting too much into detail.

Imagine how many dead people you could house per square cubit this way. The floors of the building could be sitting-room-only high, and we all know how the dead actually don't like personal space. And wouldn't they be happier sitting up, so they can see each other and not get lonely, than lying there all .. laid out?