Shock burial plans for SA

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http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/10/17/shock-burial-plans-for-sa

High-rise cemeteries, sea burials and coffin stacking in graves have been offered as solutions to the burial-space crisis facing some of South Africa's big cities.

More than half the country's cemeteries are at full capacity.

The national conference of the SA Cemeteries Association in Durban heard yesterday that the situation was so dire that communities would have to be convinced that new ways of burying loved ones would have to be found.

Ekurhuleni is considering burying family members in one grave and is in discussions with Burial Cell Systems, which offers above-ground prefab mausoleums......
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People really shouldn't care about what happens to them after they die.
Would be more "green" if we were just ground up as fertiliser.
My family can visit the spot where I fertilised the ground.
Then they can commune with nature and see the new growth.
 
Garyvdh said:
People really shouldn't care about what happens to them after they die.
Would be more "green" if we were just ground up as fertiliser.
My family can visit the spot where I fertilised the ground.
Then they can commune with nature and see the new growth.
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You're a hippie?! :eek::p
 
I'm trying to find a table of body disposal methods per religion- Google is failing me.

What are the traditional Xhosa/Zulu etc methods?
 
Garyvdh said:
cremation results in a very small burial footprint, but it is as costly as normal burial, and it is not a very "green" disposal method.
It releases noxious gases and smoke and uses a lot of energy.
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Where would you have yourself buried then as a fertiliser? Or should you first be processed and then used as fertiliser?

Not a bad idea actually, getting 'processed' into something more usable...
 
This insistence on "burying" your dead needs to be dealt with, it wastes valuable land.

My grandfather was cremated, we took his ashes to the place he loved the most in this country (Zulu Battlefields), and spread his ashes there. It was considerably more symbolic for us than just have a grave that we could visit.
 
Garyvdh said:
cremation results in a very small burial footprint, but it is as costly as normal burial, and it is not a very "green" disposal method.
It releases noxious gases and smoke and uses a lot of energy.
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The problem is not really about green but space, plus i don't think too many people are going to want to spend their days grinding up human bodies and then shoveling their mince around.
 
Scooby_Doo said:
The problem is not really about green but space, plus i don't think too many people are going to want to spend their days grinding up human bodies and then shoveling their mince around.
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Why not? Just remove the titanium replacement bits n bobs for recycling before grinding them up!
 
Donate bodies to schools. Bury bodies naked tightly next to each other, with only the butt cheeks sticking out. Kids can now park their bikes
 
Budza said:
Where would you have yourself buried then as a fertiliser? Or should you first be processed and then used as fertiliser?

Not a bad idea actually, getting 'processed' into something more usable...
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In a renewable forest somewhere like Mpumalanga.
 
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