Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of pollutants

Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po... by MertsA on Sunday November 04, 2018 @03:50PM (#18377996)

It's not the body itself, it's the embalming fluid, caskets, paints, etc that make up more mass that the body that are the problem. There's nothing fundamentally more toxic about the corpse of a human vs. the carcass of a cow.

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Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po... by robotresearcher on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:56PM (#18379272)

Maybe not more toxic, but more of a biohazard due to human-specific viruses and bacteria.

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Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po... by MertsA on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:29PM (#18388380)

Fair enough and a good point, but by the time a body is interred that's irrelevant. There's obviously a fair bit of viruses and bacteria that will thrive (or just survive if a virus) in a corpse but stuff like HIV, Hepatitis, Syphilis, etc are going to die with the body. If it's human specific, it's going to be too specific to survive much longer than the human did. There's stuff like MRSA (or any staph infection for that matter) to worry about but that's no different than the carcass of a cow.

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