If graves were cylindrical and vertical into the earth, instead of flat and rectangular, they would take up far less space. Much easier to dig with a tractor and an auger also instead of a backhoe. The auger would have to be about 7.5-8.0 feet in length though. Probably have to be like an oil rig and be lengthened sectionally. This would mean more graves on less land and potentially more revenue for the cemetery on the same amount of land.......
I remember a proposal that was aimed at keeping the departed useful after their passing. The idea was to bury them naked, face down, in a shallow grave with their bottom above the surface so that they could be used as bike racks.
Touring cemetaries in NOLA in the summertime gets a bit aromatic...... the water table down there affects the guidelines for sure.....created some interesting architecture for the dead.
If graves were cylindrical and vertical into the earth, instead of flat and rectangular, they would take up far less space. Much easier to dig with a tractor and an auger also instead of a backhoe. The auger would have to be about 7.5-8.0 feet in length though. Probably have to be like an oil rig and be lengthened sectionally. This would mean more graves on less land and potentially more revenue for the cemetery on the same amount of land.......
If you're worried about getting max occupation per acre just do cremations.
Touring cemetaries in NOLA in the summertime gets a bit aromatic...... the water table down there affects the guidelines for sure.....created some interesting architecture for the dead.
There have been times when cemeteries were flooded and caskets floated out of the mud as well as crypts.
There's a guy in KY that was buried standing upright, with a hatchet in one hand and a fifth of whiskey in the other, so that he would be ready to meet the devil face to face.
A guy I know has often commented that an auger was the best way to dispose of a corpse. Just a small round hole, no one ever pays attention to an 18" hole. Even as it settled, folks would assume it was from a tree.
A guy I know has often commented that an auger was the best way to dispose of a corpse. Just a small round hole, no one ever pays attention to an 18" hole. Even as it settled, folks would assume it was from a tree.
I think cremation is what I want, just a bag of ash left over.
this.
few things in this world piss me off more than what a funeral costs. no offense to any funeral type folks in here but screw THAT. topping $12 grand for a Cheap one. you can drop $25k easy. BUT for less than $2k, I can be a french fry.
I told my family if they spend any more than that I'll find a way to come back and club every one of them like a pit bull puppy.
No not really, work around 60 hours a week @ my job and a couple of properties to keep up, along with trying to find time to fish and shoot. I go by a large cemetery regularly and it just got me to thinking about the space it consumes. I prefer to be cremated and the Mrs. knows this. Her too. Spread me out in the gulf stream....
Getting cremated and spread on the mountain at the cabin. Rotting away in a box freaks me out. Plus why waste good real estate? A dead body is nothing but garbage, get rid of it like the rest of the trash.
A guy I know has often commented that an auger was the best way to dispose of a corpse. Just a small round hole, no one ever pays attention to an 18" hole. Even as it settled, folks would assume it was from a tree.
I remeber reading about a guy up here did that and put a yard light pole in the hole on top of the decessed. According to the article he was caught in a sting operation.
Grew up next to a cemetery from the 1830's that was on a bluff. To make a long story short one year the bluff started to slide and exposed numerous coffins including glass sided ones from the 1890's in a place us kids played. The ground your put in does not last forever
Around here anyway a standard grave is dug 4'wide 4'deep and 8 foot long . Vault set casket put in vault top set . That will leave about 1.5 feet dirt on top of vault. The veterans cemetery are dug same but 8' deep vaults preset whom ever (of a couple ) goes on bottom. There preset mausoleums for normal or private cemetery. If buried soon enough you don't have to be inbaulmed and can be buried in a pine box or even a cardboard box with no vault . I'm sure some of these laws will vary state to state. Not sure about the idea of burying somebody standing up. It's not very hard to dig with the backhoe to set over head and stones and everything tractor and auger would be much more difficult but an auger truck would possibly be quite easy..
My back gets to hurting more if I’m on my feet a lot. Spending eternity standing up seems like cruel and unusual punishment. I’ll pay more to lay down. 😁
My daughter in law was an office manager for a funeral home in Columbia Tennessee that had a crematorium. It seems that incenerating a morbidly obese client that weigned in at around 500 pounds exceeded the capacity of the furnace. The building burned down around him!
