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Re:Washington state lawmakers approve human corpse composting by njarboe on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @07:50PM (#19986874)
When cemeteries where first created they were generally put on relatively unproductive hilly ground outside of the city or town. Not sure why you think they got all the best real estate?
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Re:Washington state lawmakers approve human corpse composting by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @07:55PM (#19986909)
Who doesn't want an acreage in the hills just outside of town?

Also, many towns and cities have grown, so what used to be a small hill outside of town is now, unsurprisingly, prime real estate.

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Re:Washington state lawmakers approve human corpse composting by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @09:21PM (#19987430)
>Who doesn't want an acreage in the hills just outside of town?

People who want to farm their land or build structures to conduct commerce.

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Re:Washington state lawmakers approve human corpse composting by njarboe on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @08:03PM (#19986971)
Most cemeteries are open to the public so if they are in a city they are like parks and are very nice to have. I guess my comment is that the land a cemeteries takes up is not likely to be any more prime than any other land in a city.
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Re:Washington state lawmakers approve human corpse composting by papito on Thursday May 23, 2019 @04:34PM (#19995619)
That's actually horrible because the contaminated water runs down the hill and into the town.
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