2006-08-22 06:21:07 · 9 answers · asked by xyz_duh 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
ive actually thought about this before. Well there would still be land to live on, you may not know this but homes have been build on primitive graves as it is...eventually they might have to come to a different solution, maybe burrying people deeper then 6 ft or even starting to desenigrate bodies into ashes to save room.
2006-08-22 06:30:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't have much to worry about.
A nice estimate of the total population of human who have ever lived put the number of dead people at about 100 billion. If you assume that an average person was about 5 feet tall and 2 feet wide and buried lying down, then you only have enough dead people to cover 0.06% of the entire land surface of the Earth.
And that's making some pretty unrealistic assumptions. Many people are cremated, some buried standing up, some lost at sea, some packed into mass graves or stacked on top of one another...
Even if we never settled on previous grave ground, we would still have LOTS and LOTS of room left!
2006-08-22 13:51:53 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the land of cheapskates and science, they will probably develop new technology to launch bodies into space, there's plenty of room out there, ya know. They will also probably make funerals even more expensive and make burning bodies less expensive for the cheapskate who loves his wife but doesn't want to spend the extra dollar on her funeral (going away party) so he burns her ashes and throws them on his girlfriend's lawn. The ground will be more fertile for more growth.
Funny idea, they will turn trash dumps into cemeteries so you can be buried with your cat litter box and baby's diapers.
They will start stuffing bodies in old oil drums and shoving them in the ocean claiming they are "buried treasure" on the tax forms. The next generation will dig them up and not be very pleased.
2006-08-22 13:54:15 · answer #3 · answered by shestory1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most get cremated. The rest will eventually decompose into wormfood. After people stop paying for the upkeep of headstones and cemetary plots over the centuries, we forget and just build structures on top of them. If it gets to be a problem, some cultures burn them in mass graves like after wars and natural disasters. I wouldn't worry about it, there will be room.
2006-08-22 13:34:28 · answer #4 · answered by 2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're joking right? Bodies decay! Despite the chemicals used to temporarily preserve them so you don't get grossed out at the funeral, they still decay. Societies don't exactly preserve hundreds of years old cemeteries unless someone famous is buried there, so the grave markers get removed, and something gets built on top of it. Ever stop to think that maybe your house sits on a burial ground from hundreds of years ago?
2006-08-22 14:35:56 · answer #5 · answered by ♥Raven 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People will simply be buried over decayed people.
2006-08-22 13:46:38 · answer #6 · answered by ElOsoBravo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm sure of it, however, we may be able to make up for it with cremation and all the bodies that gets lost at sea...
2006-08-22 13:45:28 · answer #7 · answered by Dizzie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, old cemeterys (that noone visits) will be cancelled, and buildings will be built in there places...
2006-08-22 13:32:53 · answer #8 · answered by Viper_GP 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...they'll just pile them up on top of each other.
2006-08-24 19:18:12 · answer #9 · answered by kissablelips421 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋