Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of pollutants

Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po... by omgtehlion on Monday November 05, 2018 @08:23AM (#18382095)

Yep, that makes sense. At least garbage is moved far away, so it’s someone else’s problem.

Re cremation: I have heard, that to reduce a body to nice ashes takes a lot of heat and requires too much natural gas or whatever they burn in your local crematorium. Bodies do not vurn by themselves, and if you use just enough fuel to set it on fire, you’ll get bad smelling and bad looking coal-like substance covering bones...

That alkaline reduction seems ok though.

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Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po... by Eridrus on Monday November 05, 2018 @04:32PM (#18386174)

Cremation puts 540 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere; the average human breathing puts out 2.3 pounds of CO2, so it's basically the same as breathing for an extra 234 days.

Or being an American for ~3 days.

We have far larger fish to fry.

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