Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po...
by philwelch on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:56PM
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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
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Rare is not the same as won’t. Save some folks some potential trauma.
Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po...
by philwelch on Sunday November 04, 2018 @10:03PM
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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.