We bury them in flat graves
or convert them to ash
and wear them around our necks,
or place them in urns.
And what’s this about burial pods?
Your rotting corpse providing nutrients
to a tree that will one day be
cut down to make a casket
for the person that hung themselves
with their necklace of ash.
I recently read about
mechanically pressed ash
pressed so hard and
with so much pressure
that your loved one becomes
a diamond.
Albeit grey and dull,
and quite expensive.
Effectively if you die first
you can still be buried
with the one you love,
its almost like dying twice…
why do we no longer honor the dead?
Please don’t say an urn or a pod
or a flat marked grave honor the dead.
Google Highgate Cemetery.
Google The Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
and you will understand the difference.
It is good to honor the dead.
A death so honored that
a hundred years later
They’re as beautiful as ever.
Go,
look and see how beautiful it is
to honor the dead.
Sep 26, 2015
Sep 26, 2015 at 1:25 PM UTC
We bury them in flat graves
or convert them to ash
and wear them around our necks,
or place them in urns.
And what’s this about burial pods?
Your rotting corpse providing nutrients
to a tree that will one day be
cut down to make a casket
for the person that hung themselves
with their necklace of ash.
I recently read about
mechanically pressed ash
pressed so hard and
with so much pressure
that your loved one becomes
a diamond.
Albeit grey and dull,
and quite expensive.
Effectively if you die first
you can still be buried
with the one you love,
its almost like dying twice…
why do we no longer honor the dead?
Please don’t say an urn or a pod
or a flat marked grave honor the dead.
Google Highgate Cemetery.
Google The Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
and you will understand the difference.
It is good to honor the dead.
A death so honored that
a hundred years later
They’re as beautiful as ever.
Go,
look and see how beautiful it is
to honor the dead.
I'm sure it comes down to expense, but oh how I wish we still honored our dead in this way. Google images of Highgate Cemetery and the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno for specific examples of such beauty.
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