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| Australia to open feet-first graveyard (Got a green thumb?) |
| 2005-04-30 |
| A group of Australian farmers have won permission to open a 'feet-first' graveyard. Keeps 'em from getting dizzy. The eco-friendly cemetery will bury the deceased vertically to save space and in bio degradable bags in a field to be used later as pasture. Doesn't get any greener than that. Tony Dupleix, chairman of the farmers' cooperative set up 20 years ago when the idea was first mooted, said it was a 'no fuss' alternative to traditional burials. Dead, huh? Okay. Sign here. Charlie, fire up the backhoe! "When you die, you are returned to the earth with a minimum of fuss and with no paraphernalia that would affect the environment," he said. So no plastic Wayfarers, patent leather, or latex fetish rigs, please. Sorry, guys. "You're not burning 90kg of gas in a crematorium and there's no ongoing maintenance costs. You'll just be fertilizer for the South 40. "Once the cemetery operations are complete it will go back to being a paddock, just as it looks now, with animals grazing," he said. How, um, serene you'll be. Don't think about the cows and sheep shitting on your head. Bodies will be stored in a morgue in Melbourne and buried in batches of 12 to 15 in three-metre pre-drilled holes. We don't fire up the backhoe for singles, y'know. We sack 'em, rack 'em, stack 'em, pack 'em, and plug 'em. Vertical burials cost £600 and will be located on land at Derrinallum, west of Melbourne, reports The Age newspaper. The, uh, bag is very expensive, I guess. Dupleix said they expect to bury between 300 and 400 people a year. Most will be dead, heh. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #6 In Paris it's a rental thing, you get the slot for 50 - 100 years and then into the catacombs you go! Or so I'm told. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-04-30 7:53:15 PM |
| #5 Ever been to the cemetary in Boston where Paul Rever is burried? They are 3 and 4 deep there. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-04-30 7:30:24 PM |
| #4 lol, not funny Ed, unless it's capitlist oppressors we're dealing with. |
| Posted by: Red Barbie 2005-04-30 3:22:13 PM |
| #3 Leave the head sticking out above ground. Makes an eco-friendly flower pot. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-04-30 12:15:12 PM |
| #2 watch how deep you rototill, k? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-04-30 10:42:27 AM |
| #1 And no tombstones. So in a subtle way this deeply undercuts the sense of an afterlife or of family ties through the generations. Dialectical materialism, folks. Marx is smiling. Minerals from the bones will help the cows a decade from now, no doubt. |
| Posted by: anon 2005-04-30 10:22:17 AM |