A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.
I think it’s a shame that when we figured out skyscrapers we didn’t start doing that with the dead. Catacombs in the sky reaching to the heavens.
I’m gonna go pay my respects to grandma she’s in the towns bonescraper. Smash cut to a giant tower made of skeletons.
Aliens come down to that kind of society, they’d want to party with us because that’s metal as fuck
When I die please arrange my remains on the Bonescraper in the essence of a skeletal gargoyle ty
We tried that before and we ended up with ghost Pokémon. Is that what you want?
Yes
could you imagine a skyscraper of coffins & skeletons collapsing? LOL would be fucking nuts
You want metal as fuck? Check out these dudes and dudettes
https://culturacolectiva.com/en/history/manene-death-ritual-indonesia/
Holy sh...
Well have you seen some of the catacombs we do have. Skull piles, bone art, all pretty metal right there too. But not a skyscraper metal.
Like this one in Brazil?
Have a big reservoir at the bottom that collects all the water runoff and uses it for the city water supply.
Bone water. Yummy.
But then you delve too deep and it's balrogs, innit?
Only if the delving is also greedy
Not wanting to expand the cemetery or build more cemeteries is likely an economic incentive so it could be argued by the balrogs that it was greed.
You win this round, Balrog. You win.
That's called a mass grave
What are you up to?
What are you up to?
Their knees in bodies. OP needs to start their plan before they drown.
Or a catacomb
That might make it difficult to visit the remains of a loved one, but I suppose you can just chuck your flowers in the pit and eventually they'll work their way down.
I mean if you want to be maximally efficient about it just find it abandoned open pit mine in the middle of nowhere. You could dump all of the trash and corpses the human race has ever produced in it and barely even scratch the surface. Just one problem.
How the fuck are you going to pay for all the transportation expenses?
Oh yeah and dignity in death blah blah blah
I often wondered about that. Humans have been around for 100,000 years or so and we've been putting people in graves for a much smaller portion of that, but it seems we would have an awful lot of graves at this point. But we don't. You don't come across cemeteries very often and when you do they're not enormous.
SO WHERE ARE ALL THE BODIES?
Did you think graves were perpetual?
I'm sorry to bake your noodle on this one, but when you get buried you'll get 6 years tops before the site is recycled for the next person.
What?
My great grandfather’s grave is still around and he died in the ‘80s, in a cemetery in a highly populated part of my city. Right next to him is his son that was killed in Vietnam in the ‘60s.
Depends on region of course, but I think most graves are around for much longer than 6 years.
They have vertical graves in many places worldwide actually.
Mm yes but these would be fully automated luxury grave space communal resting places.
The best is to return the dead to nature.
I think cremation or donation to science should be mandatory. you can still visit a grave, just a smaller urn. or set them free in their favorite spot, turned into a tree, diamond, etc. a 3x6 foot plot of land that is now useless is stupid in my opinion. at least going to science they can learn more and train new talent.
When I die, I want my body donated to a university astrophysics lab. I'm either going to space or getting blown up trying!
Combine this with the worlds deepest goldmine and we have a winner.
What do you do with the displaced dirt?
Fend off the dirt man.
Is he weak to his own element like Metal Man?
Feed the homeless. /s
What do they do with it now? OP's death tunnel is being filled back in with dirt and coffins, so there should be 1 coffin's worth of displaced dirt per body, the same as with current burial practices.
Forbidden tiramisu
Go a step further and install every layer of coffins into I big vertical conveyor belt and you can rotate it around to get the next level once one gets too full.
That’s one heck of a shower thought!
I have always thought it extremely strange that we bury our dead.
edit: i find it even more strange that several people are responding as if this practice is still necessary.
It's a safe and reliable way to dispose of a corpse that might be diseased, will smell bad as it decomposes, and would certainly attract scavengers if left lying around. The same goes for cremation, it really just depends on local custom.
Why let all that meat go to waste?
i was thinking, "fuel," but whatever
Well damn, now I want to start the world's first corpse-fired power plant
