• Skull giver
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    172 years ago

    I’m no expert on Islam but the people who started their own graveyard had an issue with bodies being exhumed eventually.

    But why wouldnt a graveyard last “forever”?

    Populations have exploded in the last 100-150 years, especially in densely populated cities. You can’t bury tens of millions of people and keep them in the ground for long.

    • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      72 years ago

      and hell even a hundred years ago graveyards in cities started becoming problematically full, that’s literally why cremations was invented.

      • Skull giver
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        92 years ago

        Cremations were quite normal in many parts around the world, actuslly. In Europe, Christian influences caused a ban on them, but for ages cremations were the way to go. They make more sense anyway: people who cremate their dead are less likely to catch diseases from rotting corpses than people who handle put the (diseased) body back in the ground.

    • @EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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      52 years ago

      Just bury them together with nuclear waste. Two birds sealed under one stone and the radiation might give them superpowers in the afterlife