Like what will happen in the future when there is no more land avaible to bury people.This is just one of those questions that perplex me when I think about it.
2006-08-12 07:22:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yeah, I know what you mean. I have often thought that what every home I'm living in, that there is a big chance some one is buried underneath!......Kinda creepy............:)
2006-08-14 09:43:56 · answer #1 · answered by tictak kat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course there is only so much land to go around. But above ground crypts are getting popular. But I'm not so sure who would want a mausoleum the size of a skyscraper in their neighborhood. In Venice and the gulf region of the U.S. the practice of entombing people above ground has been around for a very long time. This could save space in cemeteries.
2006-08-12 16:22:04 · answer #2 · answered by d2c3p0 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe in a couple of thousand years. My geography teacher told us that space is not the problem but that resources are. He also told us that all the people in the world can be packed into Texas like sardines but that they can still fit ok. So no, I don't think that we will ever run out of space to bury people. We will just simply make more cementaries.
2006-08-12 14:29:00 · answer #3 · answered by Ψ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in a lot of places, they bury several family members in a single space. For instance, my grandparents and great-grandparents are all in a crypt near San Francisco. When it gets too full, they remove and cremate the older remains. They do the same thing in New Orleans, where the crypts are all above ground because of the high water table.
2006-08-12 14:28:41 · answer #4 · answered by lee m 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No sweat. Cemetery land is always bought out and buildings built upon them. My great ancestors graves were bought out and I believe a supermarket now stands where they were once buried. Reason why: No one came forward to claim the land.
Where are your great-grandparents/grandparents buried? Bet you have no idea and don't really care??
2006-08-12 14:29:21 · answer #5 · answered by Ya-sai 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is why I want to be cremated. My ashes would be scattered back to the elements. It is also cheaper. After all the casket is for the living the dead don't care what they are put in. Cremation here in So.Cal is 1500.00. The cost covers the coroner, and transportation. The actual cremation is free. Urns start at 500.00
2006-08-12 14:26:40 · answer #6 · answered by ldyrhiannon 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this is why cremation is gaining in popularity. people of older generations still want to be buried, and certain religions shun burning bodies, but i think over the next 50 years we will begin to see creamtion become the majority, not the minority
2006-08-12 14:26:10 · answer #7 · answered by parental unit 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've wondered this too. I mean I'm getting cremated so I don't really have to worry about that. Hopefully they don't start turning state parks into cemetaries!
2006-08-12 14:26:39 · answer #8 · answered by Jylsamynne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In theory, yes. But by then we will probably have colonies on the moon or Mars, so we can use some of that vacant land.
2006-08-12 14:25:54 · answer #9 · answered by Susie 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We'll bury people in Antartica.
2006-08-12 14:25:28 · answer #10 · answered by Jake 'N' Shakes 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋