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Like these, I’ve been seeing a lot around the time of all-saints/all souls day for christians, in which in the Philippines, that usually is when they visit the cemeteries and graves of their deceased loved ones.
IMO, I don’t know how to feel about them, something feels wrong, yet people have been using it… moderately fine, and so I want to ask the hexbearians or just anyone else what y’all think of it?
My dad’s in a pot in the living room. I am not gonna judge how anyone handles death.
In New Orleans they bury people above ground for practical reasons. When it would flood, freshly-buried bodies would get disinterred and start floating around.
I think land efficiency is good. What good does it do the dead to be buried a certain distance from other bodies? We only treat the dead well out of consideration for the sentiments of the living, so if this is compatible with their sentiments, the only better option is to just scatter ashes and not take up any space at all (or another practice that has a similar outcome, like a sky burial), but otherwise this is the best option.
every death ritual is ridiculous except mine
You just discovered burial niches?
It’s the main thing in Argentina for anyone not rich enough to have a family crypt/mausoleum in the local cemetery. Many times you get a halfway mix of little family stack of niches.
Putting the coffins in the dirt is fucking weird for us.
Cremation and putting a plaque in the family crypt is the best method in my opinion. Maouselums are cool idk
Well, not just, they’ve been around for a while (here). I do agree that putting burials into the dirt is weird, at least for what we do which is that, and singular graves with like cement for seating, and cremation and plaques stacked. I admit, it’s funny now that I didn’t see a similarity between the way cremated are in like little boxes stacked, compared to almost full body stuff.
I dunno, I just, prefer crypts and like cremation in a family crypt over full body stuff, or stuff like that in which it feels… more stacked and close than what I feel is right for stuff like these? It’s just my opinion, though.
Many small cemeteries have these big racks of niches where people put their boxed dead relatives for a few years and then cremate.
Why don’t they cremate the body right away? For some reason lots of people still like having their relatives corpses in a box for a few years (we are mostly catholics)
Why these big racks of niches are so fucking ugly and dirt cheap looking? Why can’t they put some resemblance of effort on the thing? Why most towns’ cemeteries recent additions look like absolute shit?
No fucking idea to any of those questions.
I prefer a green or sky burial but I don’t think it’s really going to matter to me when the time comes.
When I die I want to be ground up into paste, mixed into a milkshake, and tossed at the current Amerikkkan President🧋. Or just anything that actively antagonizes Amerikkka or the people who control it. Otherwise I am basically indifferent to how people choose to honor the dead.
I’m sure there will be no Amerikkka by then <3
Halloween-themed struggle session lfg
What are you asking about specifically? Like the general form of them, or is there some aspect like it being short-term rentals instead of the much longer rentals that crypts/plots usually have?
It just looks like a local variation on crypts/mausoleums, and the sort of thing that’s been done for literally thousands of years in varying ways all over the world. Like there’s really just four things that can be done with bodies: exposure/dumping methods like sky or sea burials, cremation, burying alone or in groups, or constructing/excavating some kind of storage facility that often involved stacking individual receptacles like that in some fashion. Basically all “permanent” storage solutions are also temporary, with whatever’s left after a century being disinterred and moved to a mass grave or the like or in the case of plots where coffins may have sunk deeper over time simply covered over with a new grave.
It has to be remembered: graves are for the living to visit, effectively being a sort of shrine. Their form matters only in so far as they serve that function to the people who need it, and they usually don’t last long beyond the lifetimes of people who knew the occupant unless someone keeps paying to maintain them and rent the space (or it’s on land owned by the family whose ancestors are interred there).
Oh, I should have been more specific then. But IDK, I wanted people to see what’s in the image and comment on it so I can get better understanding why I feel the way I do when I look at these graves.
As for the rest, I guess it’s more that I’m used to having family crypts or single body graves that when these big body graves are made into more ‘land-efficient’ (I am just guessing here, but it seems probable, given how cemetaries have limited grave space) cement boxes I feel weird about them.
And for the last paragraph, that is true. I think I visited like a grave (in another cemetery, this one was a single grave, multiple name plaque I’m used to) to some long lost family that was buried after WW2 (In the Philippines), and that while we (me and my father) don’t know the people personally, I think he was maintaining it because of grandpa, and family history, probably.
I think they’re cool. Lots of different ways to honor the dead, I remember when I lived in Okinawa you would see tons of shrines on the side of the road in certain parts of the island, not stacked up like apartments but very densely packed and most still tended to on the regular.
I’m an atheist so I’m fine with it.
i think after hearing about zoroastrianism practices i’ve become wholly whatever about what people do, its hauntingly poetic.those seems like overground “catacombs”, presumably cause earth is too soft for real catacombs?
unrelated but this pic looks like its ripped from a horrifying gore video. the low quality, phone aspect ratio and censored faces…
I don’t think it’s a bad thing but then my burial plan involves being wrapped in a sheet and dumped into a hole for worm food
I want the thing where vultures eat me up when I’m gone.
Best friendship with worms is over, new best friend is birds of prey
It’s not that different than any other mausoleum?
https://safepassageurns.com/what-is-a-crypt-burial/
Westminster? Catacombs?
Eta: pyramids?
