• CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Graveyards are a waste of space & good land. Land is for the living. Cremation is the way; it is clean, responsible, & considerate.

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      5 months ago

      . I’d rather be harvested for any useful organs if I have any left healthy enough to save someone, then the rest of me thrown in some kind of corpse compost or bio reactor or something.

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        5 months ago

        Yes, but the whole thing isn’t about you but about the people you leave behind. It helps me a lot that I can visit the place where I buried my father’s ashes and tell him about what is going on and how live is currently. I miss him a lot.

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          For every person like you there may be a person like me that couldn’t care less to visit a grave. I can remember my fallen ones from anywhere.

          Don’t want to sound callous but if you’re dead you’re dead to me too, like it’s a part of life. Just accept it and move on. I’m gonna die one day whoop whoop.

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            5 months ago

            Maybe as a compromise, then, the people who care can do the thing and the people who don’t don’t have to?

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              5 months ago

              Sure, but if the argument is that graveyards take to much valuable space that could be used to house living humans.

              Perhaps people should keep ashes in their own gardens etc and you can alsways go and do the things you do.

              To be transparent, this isn’t something I have given a lot of thought to until I saw this thread.

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                5 months ago

                Suppose so, I feel like they’re pretty low on the list of land we could reclaim tho. Would rather go after golf courses first for example

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                  5 months ago

                  Oh I agree that golf courses would be a priority. The same for office blocks where people can work from home.

                  I’m with mark twain on golf, it’s a good walk spoiled 😂

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        5 months ago

        If you don’t have any useful organs, I imagine you can still be used as a cadaver for medical students.

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        5 months ago

        If they didn’t pump the bodies full of toxic chemicals and store them indefinitely in a piece of furniture, maybe.