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Graveyard efficiency.

Efficiency.... I before E, huh? Where would I be without dictionary.com? Across the room looking things up manually, that's where!

Anyway, an interesting passage in Ulysses has a graveyard caretaker musing that it would be much more efficient if they buried people veritcally instead of horizontally. I thought this was a great idea!

The only downside is that it doesn't seem like a very comfortable position. Death is rest, right? I assume that's why the horizontal burials. Sleep forever, and who sleeps standing up? Well, this is a good point, but I don't really care. I wonder if graveyards are a waste of space, similar to a golf course.

Anyway, I wonder how comfortable a coffin is after you start decomposing and getting all nasty. I know when I don't bathe for a while I don't feel very comfortable. Then everything starts decomposing and stuff, who knows how your body is going to end up?

Vertically I'm sure you won't be very comfortable. But hey, eventually everything will grind into dust. And when you think about it, in what position is dust not comfortable in? Dust can adapt to anything. At that point, you're gonna be mad comfortable no matter what your coffin is shaped like.

Hence, cremation might be the most comfortable resting place of all.

So when you get buried, are you going to be selfish and take up way too much space, or will you trade a small comfort now for the people of the future?

posted by Deriser @ 3:06 AM