Why do we store our dead in the ground if they don't need the body anymore?
915628
They arent being "stored", they're being disposed of.
24160
The energy that was stored in your body dissipates into the atmosphere, your body begins the process of decay, people who cared about you mourn you for a bit, you are either cremated or filled with embalming fluid after your organs and blood are removed, the rest of the world moves on with life and death.  Pretty much the same thing that happens to everyone...
725386
First they have to be sent to the lab for pathology.  After that the hospital will either oversee cremation or the part will be sent to a mortuary for preparation.  Many religions emphasize being buried with all the parts of one's body.  In these cases the detatched parts are embalmed and cared for like any full body would be.  They are then buried where the person will be buried when they pass away.
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Corpses actually have more air in them that living bodies. That is why they look so bloated and unpleasant.  \n\nThis is a natural process caused by the bacteria that are still living in the body, and breaking it down. One of the byproducts of this process is a number of waste gases.\n\nEven if a dead body is weighted down on the bottom of a lake or river, it might eventually float to the surface because of the large buoyant forces provided by these gases.
738067
Yes, Im an organ donor. It doesnt matter which parts they use. If I have them, and they need them, they can take them. I dont understand why people wouldnt be organ donors. What good are they to you after you die? so they can rot away in a grave? I find that very selfish, when thousands and thousands of people are waiting for donations because without them they'll die. Obviously if I'm dead theyre not doing me any good anymore so why not let someone else have them?\nI like helping people..so if I can help people even after I die, how great is that?
978815
My religion has an idea about what happens after death, but it's a little different from others.\nWhen I die, the components of my body are supposed to go back into nature via the natural processes. I am not supposed to be cremated or embalmed or sealed into an impermeable casket. I am to be buried in dirt in the simplest possible wooden box, so that the earth can re-claim the material that has made up my formerly-living body.\nI will not remain aware of myself as a human. I may experience some molecular "memory" as I am assimilated into various other organisms.\nIf I leave a child behind when I go, my genetic material continues to live. If I leave recorded art or literature, a part of my mind continues to live. If someone loves me while I'm alive and remembers me fodly after I die, then a part of my emotion survives.\nThat's about it. I don't need more than that.
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Don't use lime. A big mistake. It is monitored by law enforcement agencies and after burying the body, after a long period of time, the lime can actually end up preserving the body.\n \nBurial is generally the worst way to go. Decomposition is very slow and soil erosion is something to worry about. Travel the body far away from where you live. Something like a large lake or river is good. The deeper and quicker-moving water is better. Something also needs to weight down the victim. Strap some kind of weight to the body using simple duct tape. Make sure you tape it to the mid-section of the body and not the limbs or head as erosion will eventually result in the loss of the limbs.\n\nThe water life, aquatic bacteria, and constantly moving water will provide the quickest and best for removing all the evidence. Don't be stupid and using trash bags or something to contain the body as this only preserves the body more.
456376
They don't.  Most families pick their favorite outfit to bury them in not something new.  I don't believe they put shoes on them either.
552213
I have dug many graves and a lot of it depends on whether there is a vault over the casket, ground water, soil types, and embalming fluids.It takes quite a while, because on the surface there are scavengers, but underground there aren`t but bacteria.I have relocated bodies and six or eight years after the burial they are still recognizable as human with a white mold covering them. I would say that a body buried with no vault might last quite a while before becoming a skeleton.
205693
Yes, because when dead people are in water their bodies swell causing them to float to the surface. Then they are free to attack anyone on the surface. If you pop them though, man, look out.
47161
Considering the fact that the Bible tells us that we ARE souls, and not that we HAVE them, once you die, the soul dies. There is no other part within you that goes off somewhere at death.
339385
Your heart stops beating.  Your synapses slow their firing until you are brain dead and no electrical current is flowing through the nervous system.  Your body will generally expel any waste matter (air, urine, feces) being held.  Sometime around this time, you will either discover that there is an afterlife of some sort, or you will blink into nothingness, with absolutely no consciousness to be aware of the fact that there is no afterlife.  The body will begin the approach to rigor mortise.  And bacteria will begin decomposing the body.  Years and years later, only ash (and perhaps fossilized bones) will be left of your body.  If there is an afterlife, you will never be able to tell anyone.  If there isn't, you will never be able to tell anyone.  Those who say they know the truth about the afterlife, either way, are not intellectually honest.  Which is why this question will continue to evoke philosophical debate ad infinitum.
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I have asked myself that question too so I did a little checking and I found out some information, for some cemetaries the use the stocked body solution some the cremation but what I found more interesting is that there taking existing land that belong formally to home owners and turning them in to cemetary land. I know here in California we have had plenty of scandal over the years about that and rest assure that is the question that is constantly being asked is where do the bodies go? In the cemetary my mom is buried at they have redeveloped land that was formally from owners who they have bought the land from and turned it into part of the cemetary  which now the place where my mother is at has lots of land there, we were fortunate that we got a new portion of the land before most of the land was taken because there are people dying every 24 seconds and that is true..But next time check your local cemetaries and see how much land they have left and check if they plan to redevelop land for that purpose I did and I was glad I did!
346992
When you exercise you exercise your heart.\nHave you not noticed that the people that are not very active are having more heart attacks.\n\nAlso if you are not over weight, it is easier on your pall bearers that have to carry your coffin.
975345
In most cases, unclaimed bodies are sent to medical schools for purposes of teaching and research. After they are no longer needed, they are usually cremated [this is the least costly method of disposing of a dead body in a dignified manner] and interred in a common grave.
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Some people say that, some people don't believe it.  \nI have some of my grandmother's ashes, and some of my uncle's, and all me and my family members bring them with us when we go on vacation somewhere great we think they'd like to have gone, so they can come with us, and we sprinkle some of their ashes so a part of them can stay there!  \nWhether you believe that sort of thing is fun and respectful or totally horrible depends on your individual beliefs.  I believe also that ashes kept in an urn are considered interred because they have their final resting place, it's just not in the ground.
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In the days before refrigerated mortuaries, to hide the smell of the body decomposing. Sorry, that's gross, but it's also true.