and babies born every 8 seconds, wont we eventually run out of places to bury people? i mean think about it!
2006-12-20 02:40:34 · 11 answers · asked by bad b 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
maybe
2006-12-20 03:10:11 · answer #1 · answered by miss_ooO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would take a long time but eventually we would run out of space. Several countries bury an entire family in one burial plot.
Cremation is becoming more and more popular as the cost of burials and coffins rises. Mauseleums holding the cremmains of people could be built 100's of stories high. I think the end of the world will occur before this becomes a problem.
2006-12-20 10:48:54 · answer #2 · answered by ironduke8159 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
hey u know what?
some religions and tribes don't bury people they rather burn them down.
if they buried the dead there won't be scarcity of places to bury because a body is decayed by bacterias. A body can be decayed in as less as 200 years to about 1000 years.
so, old cemetrys can be used again after certain interval of time.
2006-12-20 10:55:17 · answer #3 · answered by Ankit B 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Humans are biodegradable so not a problem.
Your numbers are a little off in the world there are
Total births per second: 41.69 Total deaths per second: 39.32 Net growth: 2.37 per second
The worry shouldn't be where to bury the dead but where to put the living and what to feed them .....
2006-12-20 10:47:08 · answer #4 · answered by Cort 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bodies decay,metal decays,concrete decays. when you put potatoe peels carrot tops onion peels into your garbage disposal do they grind up seperatly? No, their all mixed togeather, eventualy they end up back in the ground or water supply and eaten by fish or bugs or absorbed by plants in other words become food again for other things. Your body will eventually be absorbed back into the ground making room for another. who knows, in the future, they might be able to make you completely disolve. they have that right now (acid) but it's against the law to dispose of a body in that way.
2006-12-20 11:27:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You make a good point. That is why there are groups that many people join to eat babies and the dead, and also raid funeral homes and cemetarys for food. Thus, also helping the worlds population find easily accesible food. Remember to never waste perfectly good meat.
2006-12-20 10:45:58 · answer #6 · answered by truelyhonest99 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bodies deteriorate after burial, although slowly. We probably won't run out of burial grounds, but I do know a couple things we will run out of: Space! Overpopulation...
If we keep building roads and huge parking lots, we will run out of space.
If we keep flushing trash into space, we will run out of mass. Think about it. A piece of trash is made out of particles from the earth. If we keep getting rid of chunks of the earth, we will eventually run out. Whoever thought of flushing trash into space is a complete idiot.
2006-12-20 10:50:11 · answer #7 · answered by perfectlybaked 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, once you die you are dead. There is no way you can die every ten seconds. Likewise, once you are born you are born. You can't be born again in eight seconds.
2006-12-20 14:30:08 · answer #8 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There are people that die every 10 seconds? What type of disease do they suffer from? Chronic Death???
2006-12-20 12:38:11 · answer #9 · answered by Исаак Озимов 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yeah but we will probably run out of drinking water first or kill each other fighting over it, the next oil
2006-12-20 17:02:50 · answer #10 · answered by vincent c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
burial at sea. feed the fishes.
2006-12-20 11:56:32 · answer #11 · answered by waif 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋