A question about death.?

Question

Okay, approx. every 30 seconds someone in the world dies.
There's nothing we can do about it.
It's a part of life.
But it's the time-changing process of each and every burial,
that takes place, is what I began thinking about.
The people that are being buried are in 6 ft deep in a steel box,
and placed into the ground.
Everyday the population is growing more rapidly,
and over an extended period of time, more people will die.
My question to you all is, if the more people dying die,
Will we ever run out of room to bury more?
Will we have to start burying people on top of people,
as the people below them continue to shift lower into the earth?
Will we ever have enough room?

I know it sounds kind of complicated.
But I was just curious.
Thanks everyone, I appreciate it. (:

Answer 1

There is so much land that we will not run out of room in our lifetime.

Estimates say that about 90-110 billion people have lived on this earth and only 6 billion are alive now, estimates say it will be 8 billion by 2028, and we are nowhere close to running out of room.

Also keep in mind that nt all people are burried. Many people choose other methods such as creamation. But good questions!

Answer 2

In England, a long time ago, ( you'll find this in the play "Hamlet") they buried people, then in a few years, they would dig up their bones and bury someone else in the same grave. In times of plague and such where many people die at the same time, people are put in mass graves. 100 people can fit in the space of 20 regular grave sites.

No, we won't run out of space to bury the dead.

Answer 3

be buried sitting upright in a 2 meter hole,with a bale of hay on top of the body to speed up the decomposition,with out a coffin,and with a tree planted on top preferable fruit trees.

this is legal all over the world
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if everybody did that we would create sacred Forrest's ,instead of cemeteries full of concrete crosses on top of concrete slabs ,encased in murdered trees.
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in Mexico 100 million people will automatically deforest 20.000 hectares of dense Forrest, just because they die their deaths killing thousands of trees at the same time,

and in the process break the second law of Nature,which is the Law of return,which states the dead shall be food for the living.
Dust to dust

Answer 4

no because when they are buried for more than 5 years, their body turns to dirt and they become part of the earth. people try to save room by putting people in walls, cremating people and so on. sometimes when people are creamated, they get put in a box and their family gets to keep the ashes, or they get throw in the sea the side of a mountain etc. some people believe when you die, it doesn't matter what happens but they want to be burned and throw in the ocean. some think that resembles freedom.

-drama queen xoxo

Answer 5

If you want to be VERY disturbed, go visit Key West, FL and ride bicycles through the old graveyard. When I went in the early 90s, there were literally corpses creeping out of their above ground tombs. It was eery, and I had the same question as you. I think soon we will have to start thinking of alternative burial solutions.

Answer 6

Some graveyards bury people standing up for exactly that reason, others do only cremations. In the future they will be used to make Soylent Green (see link)

Scary ain't it? ;-)
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Answer 7

In many developing countries where the death rate is high due to lack pf healh facilities, the tradition is to cremate the dead body along with various customs for giving it a respect.

So ther is no problem.

Answer 8

Yes a kind of complications from your calculations, but with time newer form of burying humans will evolve.there will also be mass burial in some cases.

Answer 9

I trust in God, although let me tell you that in places like Tibet, which is small and they need all the available ground they can use to grow food, the death's bodies, are food for the Birds, and the bones are crush and make into power, for use in fertilize the ground?, It seams to me the right thing to do, for a serious religious way of one more Christian life.

Answer 10

Yes, we can run out of room. I agree with groundpounder that more and more will be creamated, but don't agree that sending bodies off to outer space would ever in any way be practical.