Screw It, You're Dead Anyway

[BoomerD]

http://news.discovery.com/tech/screw-it-youre-dead-anyway.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Nice space-saver feature for already over-crowded graveyards...I just hope people don't get tired of standing for eternity

 

[rasczak]

i'd feel bad for the ppl with foot and knee problems

 

[foghorn67]

Looks medieval.

 

[IronWing]

Soad?

 

[Squisher]

Looks to be a flat blade. They could have at least made it a Phillips or a square drive.

 

[Cogman]

here lies... Errr, I mean, stands, bob.

I guess it would be harder for zombies to climb out, after all, zombies aren't known for their climbing abilities.

 

[SooperDave]

Where's fig.1

 

[mmntech]

burial containers...provide low cost internment methods with hermetic sealing,

This makes me laugh. Apparently the hermetically sealed coffins have a tendency to, uh... explode. The gas built up inside pushes them apart leaking your green, rotting fluids everywhere. Yum.

 

[BoomerD]

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/screw-in-coffin-saves-space.php

 

[lxskllr]

That's not a half bad idea. Picking a cemetery with rocky soil could be your last FUCK YOU to the people you hate :^D

 

[dawp]

I'd rather do a sky burial.

from the op:

1) Quickest Way Back to the Food Chain. You can talk high-tech and chemistry all you want, but for my money, I've always liked the idea of getting my atoms back into the food chain ASAP. If you're with me, then you'll want to check out the whole idea of a sky burial. It's popular in Tibet, where wood for coffins is historically scarce, and where it's impossible to dig down very far because of frozen earth. You ritualistically cut the corpse, then leave it out on a mountaintop for the critters to have at it. It's a practice known as jhator, or "giving alms to the birds." Who's with me?

 

[Sahakiel]

Quickest way back into the food chain:

1. Put body in blender.
2. Flush down toilet.

Option 2:

Drop body out of high flying airplane into open sea.

Option 3:

Drop body out of high flying airplane into Alaskan wilderness to be consumed by wild bears so they may learn the taste of human flesh (or what's left of it).

Option 4:

Strap body to disposable rocket which burns completely on re-entry.

Option 5:

Nuke it from orbit.

 

[Jeff7]

Man, that's going to be really weird for the "spinning in his grave" types.

 

[Newbian]

So you get screwed in life and then in death...how nice.

 

[Freshgeardude]

doesnt the body have to be 6 feet under ground so animals cant smell it?

I couldnt see the seal lasting very long and then causing a horrible stench, and if it catches on x thousands

 

[coloumb]

doesnt the body have to be 6 feet under ground so animals cant smell it?

I couldnt see the seal lasting very long and then causing a horrible stench, and if it catches on x thousands

Has to do with 1665 and the bubonic plague:

"This tragic recurrence of the Bubonic Plague (which first decimated Europe in the 14th century) was the impetus for the law requiring dead bodies to be buried at least 6 feet below ground. "

However - today - it's rare anyone is buried at that depth -

"While "6 feet under" is common slang for "dead and buried," many corpses are no longer buried at that depth. British cemetery law changed sometime after 1665, and now burial requirements are much looser. Some U.K. towns and counties only require that a coffin be covered with a minimum 30 inches of soil. Many U.S. states don't seem to have a depth requirement for burials. In California, however, caskets must be covered by at least 18 inches of dirt and turf. But somehow "one-and-a-half feet under" doesn't sound quite as catchy as "six feet under." "