What is the point of burying the dead?

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by GoCardinals

I mean what else would you want to do with your dead? BBQ them?

If they aren't too ripe.

[ukrkoz]

Oh now this is so cute!

The biodegradable burial pod that turns your body into a tree

[GoCardinals]

Originally Posted by BigCityDreamer

They're just bones that will stay in the ground for a long time, until tectonic forces eventually take them away. And they take up space.

So why bury the dead?

Actually there ARE some tribes where they leave their dead out in the middle of no where to rot. Would you consider it as a better option?

[addakisson]

Originally Posted by GoCardinals

Actually there ARE some tribes where they leave their dead out in the middle of no where to rot. Would you consider it as a better option?

If I came upon a body in the middle of no where, I would assume there was a murder. Maybe we should leave a toe tag. "To whom it may concern..."

[303Guy]

Originally Posted by ukrkoz

Oh now this is so cute!

The biodegradable burial pod that turns your body into a tree

That's what I want for myself.

[Wittgenstein's Ghost]

This thread is very confusing. Isn't cremation the most likely alternative to burial? Why is everyone discussing the possibility of eating the dead or leaving them lying around?

[The Last Amalekite 1Sam15]

Originally Posted by Wittgenstein's Ghost

This thread is very confusing. Isn't cremation the most likely alternative to burial? Why is everyone discussing the possibility of eating the dead or leaving them lying around?

Nope! One more option.