The coffin business..

[tp4tissue]

Thoughts ??


People gotta die right ??

[Novus]

It's a legitimate business.

[Novus]

You ever watch that episode where Gibbs makes Frank's coffin?

[The Mad Professor]

Well one thing's for sure... you'll never run out of clients...  Over time, storage can become an issue, but I see no reason why we can't reuse spaces where there's nothing left. All else fails, disintegration or recycling can be a good industry... especially if you go into the fertilizer business.

[katushkin]

My gf's sister's boyfriend's dad owned a string of 10 funeral directors and he just sold them.

They are hella loaded. It's a very profitable business with funerals creeping close to £8,000 each.

[tp4tissue]

I'm actually pretty convinced of its long term viability... 

The issue in business  is actually sustained growth, because people like to see money come out of no where, ala USA debt base..

[rowdy]

Soon the planet will run out of space to bury people in the ground.

Crematoriums will be too busy.

Solyent green, anyone?

[Novus]

What about burial though?

Burial at sea?
Burial in your backyard, family plot?
Burial at graveyard, next to your family?

[rowdy]

What about burial though?

Burial at sea?
Burial in your backyard, family plot?
Burial at graveyard, next to your family?

In Australia it is not legal to bury someone in your back yard.  You'd end up with a visit from the police and they will aerate your top soil for you.

Family plots are only so large - assuming a family is fruitful, any reasonable sized plot will fill in a couple of centuries at most.

Most graveyards are now in suburban areas.  There was a graveyard next to the high school I went to.  No room to expand it, and only a few empty plots.  Back when it was started it was probably right out on the outskirts of the populated area, but now is in the suburbs.

I guess there are a lot of deserts where people are unlikely to setup permanent residence - you could be buried there.

[The Mad Professor]

I still say that we go the fertilizer route. Grind me up into mulch and spread me over a field. It would be nice to know that my death contributed to the sustenance of future generations.

Plus, it's Soylent Green... but without it ACTUALLY being Soylent Green.

[tp4tissue]

What about burial though?

Burial at sea?
Burial in your backyard, family plot?
Burial at graveyard, next to your family?

In Australia it is not legal to bury someone in your back yard.  You'd end up with a visit from the police and they will aerate your top soil for you.

Family plots are only so large - assuming a family is fruitful, any reasonable sized plot will fill in a couple of centuries at most.

Most graveyards are now in suburban areas.  There was a graveyard next to the high school I went to.  No room to expand it, and only a few empty plots.  Back when it was started it was probably right out on the outskirts of the populated area, but now is in the suburbs.

I guess there are a lot of deserts where people are unlikely to setup permanent residence - you could be buried there.

soylent is the more green way to go...  buh..... people got this whole conscience thing

[Air tree]

I would donate my body to science but I rather not have some student feeling up my cold dead body. Make me into mulch like someone else said.

[Elrick]

I guess there are a lot of deserts where people are unlikely to setup permanent residence - you could be buried there.

Rowdy just have a look at all the disused mine-sites here in Convict Town, there is heaps of space underground to fill up with millions of bodies.  Aside from burying Nuclear Waste there you can also pile it up with dead relatives and friends for thousands of years  .

There is plenty of space inland of Australia should start filling it up for once, even if it's only for corpses and waste......

[ApocalypseMaow]

I still say that we go the fertilizer route. Grind me up into mulch and spread me over a field. It would be nice to know that my death contributed to the sustenance of future generations.

Plus, it's Soylent Green... but without it ACTUALLY being Soylent Green.

Nah, let's go straight Soylent Green route!!!  )

[rowdy]

I guess there are a lot of deserts where people are unlikely to setup permanent residence - you could be buried there.

Rowdy just have a look at all the disused mine-sites here in Convict Town, there is heaps of space underground to fill up with millions of bodies.  Aside from burying Nuclear Waste there you can also pile it up with dead relatives and friends for thousands of years  .

There is plenty of space inland of Australia should start filling it up for once, even if it's only for corpses and waste......

I'm not sure many people would want their loved ones remains dumped next to nuclear waste.

Funerals would get quicker though.

[tp4tissue]

Ok.. so you guys are saying...  good - investment ??

[The Mad Professor]

I'm not sure many people would want their loved ones remains dumped next to nuclear waste.

 

This thought has all the earmarks of a "cautionary tale" movie produced by the SyFy channel...

Ok.. so you guys are saying...  good - investment ??

Well, unless someone figures out how to cure death, you should be good.

[tp4tissue]

I'm not sure many people would want their loved ones remains dumped next to nuclear waste.

 

This thought has all the earmarks of a "cautionary tale" movie produced by the SyFy channel...

Ok.. so you guys are saying...  good - investment ??

Well, unless someone figures out how to cure death, you should be good.

This is the one time, I am going with advice I got on the internet, oh wait.. 87u.. ffffff...

well hopefully this one turns out ok...  )

[0100010]

Death and taxes...

[Elrick]

I'm not sure many people would want their loved ones remains dumped next to nuclear waste.

Funerals would get quicker though.

It's coming rowdy, no one wants dead bodies parked next to their homes and shopping centers hence putting them down disused mine sites is the logical thing to do.  Nuclear waste won't bring anything to life simply because the waste is so toxic nothing can breed or move in it's grasp when spilled, on anything living or dead  .

The funeral homes never tell where their loved ones are going hence only have an empty panel in a crypt, with their names upon it should suffice.

[tp4tissue]

I'm not sure many people would want their loved ones remains dumped next to nuclear waste.

Funerals would get quicker though.

It's coming rowdy, no one wants dead bodies parked next to their homes and shopping centers hence putting them down disused mine sites is the logical thing to do.  Nuclear waste won't bring anything to life simply because the waste is so toxic nothing can breed or move in it's grasp when spilled, on anything living or dead  .

The funeral homes never tell where their loved ones are going hence only have an empty panel in a crypt, with their names upon it should suffice.

This is not completely true...

Biologists like to think they know all there is to know about LIFE,

then they wiggle the whole redox pair in front of you..


Yes, there is evidence to suggest that life will conform to certain standards..

but the Universe is too big a place to dwell so firmly on what little we know about it.



Life that survive under heavy radiation could very well exist.. 

[Elrick]

Life that survive under heavy radiation could very well exist.. 

You may experience the full onslaught of radiation when the idiot West starts picking a fight with Moscow, then you can post here on Geekhack (if it still works) what's growing on or inside you (please provide pics of it)  .

[jdcarpe]

Yes, bury people with the nuclear waste. Then we can have radioactive zombies!

Me, I want to be placed in a metal cylinder and shot out of a spacecraft onto the Genesis planet. Then you guys can come search for me!

That, or a nice funeral pyre, with me dressed in brown robes, with my light saber by my side.