Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of pollutants

Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po... by dorchadas on Sunday November 04, 2018 @01:09PM (#18377174)

I want a Viking funeral myself.

But, more seriously, part of me hopes that I'll recognize when my time is coming and be able to just wander off into the woods or something and die that way, with my body left where it drops. Even though I feel like that might be against what the article is suggesting.

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Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po... by protomyth on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:43PM (#18379196)

I'll recognize when my time is coming and be able to just wander off into the woods or something and die that way, with my body left where it drops.

Please don't do that. It sucks seriously for the people who have to go find you when the missing person report is filed, and it really, really sucks for the "doesn't know what is going on" person who finds your body. Predators are not exactly 100% effective.

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Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po... by philwelch on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:56PM (#18379273)

Hikers disappear all the time and it's rare for bodies to be found when no one is specifically looking for them. In the wilderness, unless it's somewhere like on Mount Everest where bodies are naturally preserved by freezing, corpses tend to disappear pretty quickly. Predators are not 100% effective, but scavengers are pretty close, especially because there's so damned many of them ranging from insects to worms to birds and mammals.

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Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po... by protomyth on Sunday November 04, 2018 @09:45PM (#18379486)

Rare is not the same as won’t. Save some folks some potential trauma.

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Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po... by philwelch on Sunday November 04, 2018 @10:03PM (#18379570)

Fair point.

Conversely, if you want to fake your own death, disappearing in the wilderness ("hiking accident") is one of the most reliable and plausible cover stories. People who disappear at sea wash up on shore a hell of a lot more often than people who disappear in the wilderness are ever seen.

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Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po... by jrace on Sunday November 04, 2018 @01:21PM (#18377254)

That sounds like a great idea....unless you are the poor person who stumbles upon the decomposing corpse.

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Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po... by enriquto on Sunday November 04, 2018 @04:15PM (#18378098)

Of course, for that you have to tell people about your immediate plan. If you simply "disappear", this will likely trigger a very expensive rescue expedition that will find your freshly dead corpse, and it will ruin your Viking funeral.

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