should cemeteries be repurposed?

[the game]

So cemeteries take up a lot of space. They could be better used for solar farms. Or if people really want to bury their dead then instead of coffins the bodies could be cremated and buried in those biodegradable urns that have a tree seed in them. That way that space is being useful.

http://eternitrees.com/urns-people

[Jonnusthegreat]

Yes, they should.

[Cruor]

People are just meat with higher end brains, when you die it's just dead meat. I'd support re proposing the land.

[s_bushido]

I'm sure there are much better areas that could be "repurposed" for this that don't involve tampering with things that are very important to a lot of people... There are plenty of roofs, sidewalks, parking lots, etc, etc that could have solar panels installed over them before you go hunting for nonsense like this.

[horbindr]

and then you chop down the trees every x years to rycycle the land area right? just like cemeteries do?

maybe you can use the wood to make a bed for small children, tell em greatgrandma is watching at all times!

[PC2]

Yeah as long as it is with the consent of the owner and not eminent domain.

People are just meat with higher end brains, when you die it's just dead meat. I'd support re proposing the land.

True, if people were un-spiritual I'm not sure if anyone would still care about cemeteries. I find them interesting to walk around in the same way it's interesting to visit religious historical sites.

I wonder if they have a lot of cemeteries in atheistic places like China. The typical citizen there still has a lot of supernatural beliefs so it wouldn't surprise me if they have similar spiritual traditions, just without a particular religion.

[Stormdash]

People are gonna be so pikachu-faced at what ends up happening if they actually try to impose this kind of loathsome shit.

[GreenJesus]

This is the type of stupid radical nonsensical shit that makes people annoyed with radical climate change people. Fiddling with the 0.00000001% when there are much bigger issues that should be addressed without effecting the beliefs and lives of the people. There's tons of open land that would be fine without trampling on spiritual beliefs of people.

You know what? Parks, sports fields and playgrounds are kind of wasteful. Why dont we turn them into solar farms? Fuck the kids am I right?

[PC2]

People are gonna be so pikachu-faced at what ends up happening if they actually try to impose this kind of loathsome shit.

The OP asked about what you think "should" happen. Not about what you think should be forced on everyone else. Those are two very different questions.

[Auxora]

The OP kind of mixes 2 ideas at the same time that have different levels of viability. "Repurposing" cemeteries, as in digging up previously buried people and cremating them to re-purpose the land will never happen and isn't viable. It's incredibly insensitive to the families of the dead in a cemetery that you'd do this with to even propose.

The second part of it that the OP kind of mixed in is alternative forms of burial to traditional coffins. That is viable and is something that's been done for a while now already, not just with cremation (which has been done forever) but also the tree planting and other ideas.

But the important thing is that how a person's body is handled after their death is a huge decision for each individual and their family. That isn't a decision that can or should be made by the public or someone else with no relationship to the deceased person, because some people with no relation to the deceased (and iffy values tbh) won't care and would be happy to make the land a park, or parking lot, or anything else. Some people think the body is just flesh after death, but others have completely different opinions. Besides, this Earth has plenty of land to allocate a little bit of it to have a place to remember and honor those that have passed. If we have room for a Starbucks and Subway on every corner, I think we have cemetery room.

[Sunseeker]

We should really recycle our dead more efficiently than simply burying them in non-farming land.

[Shadowferal]

We should really recycle our dead more efficiently than simply burying them in non-farming land.

Take that thought further.
How many have already said the word "meat?"

[Flutterguy]

Why don't we eat the dead?

[Belize]

Why don't we eat the dead?

Granny meat is expired meat. It's way past its best before date.

[PC2]

Why don't we eat the dead?

Good question, is our aversion to the idea of cannibalism mainly genetic or mainly cultural. Hmm

[Flutterguy]

Good question, is our aversion to the idea of cannibalism mainly genetic or mainly cultural. Hmm

Well you know, watch enough raptor nests and see enough dead chicks getting eaten by their siblings and you start to ask questions.

[the game]

Good question, is our aversion to the idea of cannibalism mainly genetic or mainly cultural. Hmm

cultural. There are third world cultures where cannibalism is acceptable. I believe the tribe on North Sentinel island is a cannibal tribe.

[Natta Lmo]

Why don't we eat the dead?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

It is now widely accepted that kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via funerary cannibalism.

[Kaleredar]

Why don't we eat the dead?

Well you see there's this problem with eating dead people... in which a damaged protein known as a prion, that cannot be cooked out or otherwise removed from the contaminated meat, can, in so many words, cause the eater's brain to effectively turn to mush over a period of several years and making them infectious to others. And not just by consuming them; it'd make tissue, organ, and blood transfusions equally able to transfer the disease.

Plus, you know... most people don't voluntarily have themselves killed. Many people die of diseases. Meaning that they're not exactly "fresh" for harvesting.

And, of course, consuming another human being is... revolting. Yeah, I said it.

[Very Tired]

I don't know if you've noticed this, but we aren't actually short on space. Especially for something like solar farms which could be put anywhere in the world.