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I don't care what my family decide to do with my body after i die. i most likely don't have use for it at that time.

@BrainHigh Same for my family, we've all been burnt to ashes and buried in a memorial grove. I'll most likely end there myself when I die.

Not that it bothers me, I think it would be our version of a family grave.

Americans are going an interesting direction where they are getting cremated more and then scattered someplace special. This is kinda cool because theres no need for expensive grave space and they can return to nature. Its not so cool when someone decides to scatter them at Disney's Haunted Mansion ride and the ride gets shut down so they can clean the ride.

I guess some of us look at it very differently.
My parents bought me my plot when I was around 5 or so. The local cemetery opened up a new section and the whole family bought plots together. Although my aunt went broke and had to sell 3 of her's so now we have some riffraff with us. But I find it kinda comforting to know where I will end up. Although the Cemetary on the other side of town is prettier.

There was a women who died back in the early 1800s here and her family buried her on this hill she requested to be buried on. Years latter the county decided to build a road and it went right over her grave. Her family wasn't to happy about it so her grandson camped on her grave with a shotgun threatening the road crew. The county relented and split the road around her grave rather than leveling the hill out and paving over it. 185 years later they wanted to widened the road and dig up her remains. People threw a fit about it and so while they dug up her and 6 other people who happened to be with her. They then put them back in new coffins where they found them and built the road around them but now it looks like a sidewalk with a plaque in the middle of a road instead of the large mound with a headstone in it so idiot flying down the road at night don't kill themselves. I guess we are serious on that forever stuff here.

@purple_squirrel

Interesting

I used to work in a cemetry here in wales, any grave over 100 years old (minus a few of historic value) would be considered empty

I thought they generally took the bones to an ossuary. Or built things out of them. Look up bone chapels, because there are apparently several chapels made almost entirely of human remains.

@tomyironmane
The bone chapels are not very common and are uselly built with bones from war and/or plauge that left alot of bodys. One of the most famous is the catacombs in Paris.
But also churches like Kostnice Sedlec outside praha. There is also a small one in the center of Milano.

@tomyironmane My wife's grandma died last year, and her dad was dead for a long time now, and they planned on burying in the same spot, because the spots here are insanely pricey to get. So, it was supposed to be empty, turns out it wasn't. Something has mixed up, probably the casket was lacquered or something and withstood for too long, they ended up unearting her dad's skeleton, during the burial no less, it was all really, really weird. She said later, when she returned, that this definitely put a lot of thing in perspective. Long story short: they don't move them.
Bone chapels were made when after plagues the cemeteries were full to the brim, in Paris it was so bad that dogs could reach the top layer of burial ground. That's why the bone chapels were made. I don't think they are routinely made now, even though there are way more people living and dying.

When I die I don't want to be buried in a cemetery, but in a forest (or actually they can just leave my body in a forest for animals to eat. I probably wont care anymore then). This way I will never have to share my grave. xD

@Lumpex Is this peak finnish

@Lumpex
Reminds me of a song:

When I die let the wolves enjoy my bones
When I die let me go
When I die let the sharks come 'round to feed
When I die set me free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzKzp76dElM

@Lumpex Have a tree planted over you. You feed the tree as it grows.

Extra bonus: if the tree ever falls in a wind storm, there is a chance that your remains will be pulled up with the roots. This creates a rather macabre surprise and eery story for future generations!

@Crakkerz
Omg thank you for that great idea! XD I'll try to remember that.

In New Orleans, the cuty is too close to sea level, there aren't nearly enough places to bury corpses that they wouldn't float up out of. So, they re-use crypts. In the south coast climate, with the sun beating down on the sealed crypt and heating the interior, the decay of a body is greatly accelerated. A year and a day after a body was placed in the crypt, it can be opened up again, whatever charred-looking remnants are still there are swept into a spot in the back, and a new body can be placed inside.

Finally!

The whole concept of paying for a grave is a tad ridiculous and outdated in my mind. My grandfather insisted it, and set the money aside for it. It was a whole thing. My grandmother was like, eh... just chuck my ashes in the ocean. A much more beautiful moment considering the dolphins followed our boat.

in the 1800's (probably earlier) if you were poor in the UK you could end up in a paupers grave. You could end up sharing this with up to 15 other people (jumped up and down upon so you fit) your body may pop out of the ground but that's okay you would be in the furthest corner of the graveyard away from people who come to see loved ones and there was no service for you.

Also apart from that tidbit the dead were generally treated better than the living. When St Pancras station was being built it was over a graveyard so the Midland Railway contacted the living relatives and paid out to have the bodies moved and even if the families wanted anything extra for the deceased. At the same time they destroyed houses of those living there and told them to find somewhere else to live with no money for them

@WarsmithGG man i hate capitalism

@lena_shelby That's what you got from his comment? Dear God.

@Dorsai

Its a fairly logical reaction to such treatment of poor people. Possibly they had disputed rights to the land they were living on or were renting and the owner sold as even in Victorian Britain I suspect if they owned the land they would have had some rights but a lot of nasty things happen to poor and even ordinary people when the rich go unrestrained. Far worse even than in parts of Britain and the US today where at least there is some social services and legal rights for people. [Still a lot better than in parts of what used to be called the 3rd world.]

@stevep59 Except that what happened has pretty much zero connection to capitalism - power imbalances exist in every system. Had she responded with "man I hate tacos", her comment would have made the exact same amount of sense.

@Dorsai

All systems are prone to imbalances of power but it depends on what she meant. Capitalism as an idea to give a basis on which to plan economic policy I would agree with your point. All too often nowadays however its became a dogma to be followed blindly and never questioned despite repeated failures of such an ideological view of it. Frankly I think Adam Smith would be disgusted with what is often proclaimed in his name. So it depends on what is meant by capitalism, I think.

@stevep59 yes indeed, but there's ignorance in believing capitalism has no connection to the poor getting stripped of their homes. ThisIsWhatCapitalismLooksLike

@Dorsai yes

@lena_shelby oh yeah Victorian capitalism at it's worst really. You ever arrive in St Pancras station just stop and think of what was there before

@WarsmithGG indded

@lena_shelby If the housing were government owned, it'd probably be the same notice on the door to get out.

@Steeeve well it shouldn't be government owned. A living space is a right, not something that anyone should be able to take away from you

@WarsmithGG
Not actually true unless your talking about any of the epidemics, in the case of epidemics there was hasty burials and there were alot in the cut, but the cut was dug to deeper than 6 feet and 6 feet of earth was allways placed on each "pit", the bodies were allways placed in the cut, not tossed in and aligned correctly, once the pit was covered a prayer was said, it was the only time paupers got any respect, every body got a christian burial, there was alot of paranoia about the dead about then.

@Mistwraith I'm mainly talking about how paupers were treated in death in the early to mid 1800's. This was a time when they were treated as refuse really (poor laws of 1834 and Poor Law amendment act of 1847). They would get better treatment if they died in the workhouses but generally if they had no money for a funeral then they had a paupers funeral. This attitude did change after 1872