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Honestly I don't understand this obsession people have with where their corpse goes. I mean, you're dead. If you're buried, cremated, buried at sea or whatever
by cletus 7y ago
Honestly I don't understand this obsession people have with where their corpse goes.
I mean, you're dead. If you're buried, cremated, buried at sea or whatever it certainly doesn't matter to you, faith systems notwithstanding.
Perhaps your family will have some psychological attachment to being able to visit your grave but your body doesn't actually have to be there for any of this.
In some places space isn't an issue but in lots of places it is such that there are long waiting times, it's expensive, you only rent your grave spot or some combination of these.
I mean at some point doesn't the Earth become a giant graveyard, assuming death can outpace subduction.
Here's the areas where I have a real problem with the emotional attachment to your corpse: organ donation. Refusal to allow your dead body to literally save other people's lives is the very height of illogical selfishness.
Some religions even prohibit organ donation (or just make it practically impossible). I hope those who holds that view are consistent enough to refuse organ donations.
- xeromal 7y agoHandling the dead is probably one of humanity's oldest rites. It would make sense that people innately care about what they do with their passed loved ones even if it was even logical. It wouldn't be ridiculous to think that we handled our dead in a special way before we even had tools.
- clay_the_ripper 7y agoHumans have longstanding traditions of handling death and dead bodies with reverence and care. I don’t think it’s fair to characterize these things as “psychological attachments”. Rituals, traditions and emotions are important for human beings, and appear across cultures for thousands of years and will continue to do so as long as humans are human. We aren’t robots. We don’t do “logical” things al the time. And that’s for the good.
- lotsofpulp 7y ago>We aren’t robots. We don’t do “logical” things al the time. And that’s for the good. Some might consider spending considerable amounts of society's resources after people no longer alive at the expense of the living and future people to not be good. There's paying respects to one's loved ones, but sometimes it seems to cross into ornate displays of consumption.
- Zelphyr 7y agoMany (most?) people aren’t altogether rational when they’re grieving the loss of a loved one and it’s made worse by the fact that we often make these decisions at the height of our grief, hours or days after that person has died.
- sebasmurphy 7y agoYeah and it's not like your body is going to stay buried there forever. A couple hundred years from now some historians will dig it up for science to see how people lived in the past.