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Why aren't people buried standing up?
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:15 am
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:15 am
Seems like some enterprising cemetery owner would have started doing this at some point in history to maximize his land usage. 
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Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:15 am to IAmNERD
And dig a 12' deep hole?
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:16 am to LSUballs
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And dig a 12' deep hole?
You'd have to drill it.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:17 am to IAmNERD
Aren't Mexican funerals done with the corpse standing up?
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:17 am to LSUballs
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And dig a 12' deep hole?
Meh, you could get by with 10. It's not like they're digging them with shovels and pickaxes these days either.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:19 am to IAmNERD
kinda hard keeping the body from collapsing into the hole. laying them down is easier
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:20 am to IAmNERD
In some european cathedrals, important men of the church have been buried vertically because of space considerations. I recall seeing six sided engraved stones about thirty inch diameter.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:21 am to IAmNERD
Most parts of Florida and i assume most parts of Louisiana, you'd hit water doing this.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:21 am to sidewalkside
The body would still be in a coffin, right?
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:22 am to IAmNERD
A better question is, why don't they stack them?
If a couple want to be buried together, why not just use one plot and bury the first one 10-12 feet deep and the second one on top? Uses less land and accomplishes the same thing.
If a couple want to be buried together, why not just use one plot and bury the first one 10-12 feet deep and the second one on top? Uses less land and accomplishes the same thing.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:24 am to IAmNERD
This post was edited on 4/22/25 at 9:38 am
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:26 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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A better question is, why don't they stack them?
They do. My Grandpa is buried on top of my Brother.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:26 am to IAmNERD
Sitting with beer and cigs is the answer
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:27 am to Shexter
Would need a 48" auger bit for some of the Baws around here.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:27 am to IAmNERD
quote:
Seems like some enterprising cemetery owner would have started doing this at some point in history to maximize his land usage.
just toss the cadavers in the furnace and you don't need to worry about maximizing your land usage at all, no?
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:29 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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A better question is, why don't they stack them?
They do. That’s what these buildings are. This one can stack them 6 high.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:30 am to IAmNERD
Cause your legs don’t work anymore
When you’re dead
When you’re dead
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:30 am to IAmNERD
Because we want to think of ourselves as being at rest after we die.
Life is a struggle for most people; let them rest in death.
Life is a struggle for most people; let them rest in death.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:39 am to fr33manator
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They do. My Grandpa is buried on top of my Brother.
Yea, it happens, but I don't think it's commonplace.
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