With all the dead people that are being buried would there eventually be no more room on earth to live on?

Answer 1

The dead people that are buried decompose...the elemental composition (i.e. atoms) in their decomposing bodies are then incorporated into other entities, such as living species. Not pretty, but that's the way it is...

Answer 2

No sweetie, the coffins sift down into the earth further and further every year. Once a person has been dead a minimum of 100 years you can legally remove the headstone and bury a body on top of that one. By that time the first coffin will have sifted down into the earth a few more feet and they can bury the second coffin the traditional 6 feet deep.

Answer 3

Incineration is becoming a more popular and less expensive choice.

Paris had to relocate their dead which were buried in the honeycombs beneath the city. The decomposing bodies were not only affecting the water, but the city stunk so bad, Louie the 14th had to move

Answer 4

I have often wondered that myself. In all reality we are supposed to be buried so that we decompose and no one would ever know we are buried there in the future. With these fancy coffins, they preserve the state of the body to an extent with a concrete exterior to place the fancy coffin in. I don't get that part. Heck we can be living or burial grounds or bodies and have no idea because of the lack of records hundred of years back.

Answer 5

I would be more worried about the numbers of people being born into the world. With religions trying to out breed each other and with our cheap medical technology causing children to survive in areas where social custom called for large families to insure a couple survived to care for the parents, we are crowding our selves into an ever increasingly polluted and less supportive world.
Worrying about the dead crowding us is like worrying that the oceans will overflow from all the rain that drains from the land.

Answer 6

buried bodies tend to decompose, though it takes much longer for things like bones to decompose... by this method they would be re-absorbed into the earth...

in north america for instance, first nations peoples were buried, and afew hundred years later we are building and living ontop of them, without even realizing they are there... so its likely that in the future people will be living overtop of burials, with no thought of it...

also, with the ever increasing price of western funerary practices (coffins, plots, etc) it is possible that less people will be buried than in the past

Answer 7

I think that way too. But I am going to donate my organs, if I have
any good ones left. And then be cremated so I can be scattered
into the ocean. I don't want to be buried. No head stone, no coffin.
No funeral services. Not for me. I asked God....and he said it's ok

Answer 8

the dead and buried people and all other dead creatures decompose and become the very earth we walk upon. they become the earth,the trees and from them, their fruits and they feed the new animals and then they die and once again become the earth,ashes to ashes and dust to dust. so no.

Answer 9

I used to wonder about this. I am going to be cremated and have my ashes put in an urn that my daughter will keep on her mantel.

That way, I can't contribute to the problem.

Answer 10

I'm sure we walk over dead people all day. Think about it.