staffrodore said:
Why not cremate everyone and use this valuable space for forests or room for protected species?
That, my friend is completely unrealistic - though a well founded thought.
I'm thinking more about cemetries;
existing ones ....which are more often than not in the city/towns. Realistically I don't think you'd find someone cremating a whole cemetry in order to use the space for a wildlife reserve in it: if the land was freed it would go to the highest bidder- someone interested in commercial development. It would hardly be avaliable immediately for residential development, would it?
I somehow don't think a park would be that popular if it used to be a cemetry...and a zoo on a former graveyard? - uh as enviromentally proactive as it sounds I don't think keeping animals in the former sanctuary of the dearly departed would go down too well.
In the future...to prevent the land use from getting further wasted, I think it might be good to cremate and perhaps build up - off the land so that you have an indoor-type area where the original graves are kept but above is the levels of crematory-plaques where people can go - and naturally more would fit in a smaller space. Less waste of space/land as it would mean those people that were cremated were saving the land that would otherwise have been used for their burial.
Interesting topic, though.
There is a woman somewhere in N.Z that has actually started a Cemetry by which people can choose to be "planted" directly in theearth with a small tree, so that you can go and visit the tree knowing that its nutirents had come directly from the body...and so the tree would be like the living gravestone - and literally, as you would have it the "life-after-death" for the departed.
I thought that was kinda cool. And that is an eco-friendly option that works both for the people and the land.
