That's called a mass grave
What are you up to?
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2024
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Or a catacomb
What are you up to?
Their knees in bodies. OP needs to start their plan before they drown.
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
We tried that before and we ended up with ghost Pokémon. Is that what you want?
Yes
You want metal as fuck? Check out these dudes and dudettes
https://culturacolectiva.com/en/history/manene-death-ritual-indonesia/
Holy sh...
When I die please arrange my remains on the Bonescraper in the essence of a skeletal gargoyle ty
could you imagine a skyscraper of coffins & skeletons collapsing? LOL would be fucking nuts
Like this one in Brazil?
Have a big reservoir at the bottom that collects all the water runoff and uses it for the city water supply.
Bone water. Yummy.
But then you delve too deep and it's balrogs, innit?
Only if the delving is also greedy
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
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?
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.
What?
My great grandfather’s grave is still around and he died in the ‘80s, in a cemetery in a highly populated part of my city. Right next to him is his son that was killed in Vietnam in the ‘60s.
Depends on region of course, but I think most graves are around for much longer than 6 years.
Where I live you usually pay the grave for 20 years at the time of the burial. If you still want to keep it after you have to pay to extend it.
The best is to return the dead to nature.
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.
They have vertical graves in many places worldwide actually.
What do you do with the displaced dirt?
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.
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!
That would create weak concrete in the exact place you absolutely do not want weak concrete.
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.
When I die, I want my body donated to a university astrophysics lab. I'm either going to space or getting blown up trying!