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Torrero, like many Spanish cemeteries, no longer allows people to buy grave sites, instead leasing them out for periods of five or 49 years.

How many generations do they expect people to give a shiat where relatives they maybe even never met are buried?

Who leases a burial plot? I mean, besides Jesus.

"He won't need it for very long."

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Sybarite: Torrero, like many Spanish cemeteries, no longer allows people to buy grave sites, instead leasing them out for periods of five or 49 years.

How many generations do they expect people to give a shiat where relatives they maybe even never met are buried?

I thought I read somewhere that, even in cases where it was ownership and not a lease, some countries were moving to change the laws to allow reuse of burial plots after X number of decades, on the assumption that decomposition is more or less complete and everyone who would remember the deceased and visit the grave had likely passed away themselves.

Splinshints: Why do we still bury the dead? They're just chunks of flesh and bone at that point. Potential energy. Wasted. And wasting space.

Remember the story about the guy who figured out how to make diesel out of dead cats?

/ Soylent Petroleum is people!

BurnShrike: It's just a matter of time.

Setting aside a plot of land permanently to hold the remains of some long-dead shmuck is wasteful and unsustainable.

We need to start composting bodies, not embalming them and keeping them in their own little patch of land.

this is latin style burial. very different. First of all, the tomb is above ground. and, one of those tombs can hold over 80 people. The deceased are not embalmed or preserved. They are set inside the tomb, and then it is sealed. While it decays, the temperature gets extremely hot inside, completely cooking off the flesh. That's why the rule mandates the newly interred to be sealed in for a year and a day. When the seal is broken, the body is nothing but bones and dust. If it's time to put in a new body, you shove the previous to the back of the tomb, where there's a hole. the bones fall down the hole to continue to break down (probably upon a stack of all the previous people dumped in). Re-seal it, and let the new body decay. rack 'em and stack 'em. A body takes up very little space and continues to decay while in there. It's basically a constant oven (if there is stuff to decay). you can easily fit all the members of several generations of family in there.

/ lives in nola. they bury them above ground because it's latin, not because flooding.

HailRobonia: Any historian can tell you that cemeteries have been dug up and reused since pretty much the invention of cemeteries. It's no big deal.


Sometimes sooner than expected.

I guess it happens in the United States too: