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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
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Subject: Re: Space Burial
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 12:54:34 EST
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> It's not enough that humans have to waste on cemeteries the land that's
> scarce enough in some areas to fight wars over (which is one good way to
> fill them).  After all the amount of land in the world is essentially
> constant and the number of dead people in the world is monotonically
> increasing.
> Phil (I want to be cremated when I die) Karn

Until "recently" (historically speaking), it was not uncommon for the same
cemetery plots to be re-used, after intervals of around 10 or 50 years or so.
This practice changed when squeamish people migrated to a continent that had
an infinite supply of land.  (They also obtain infinite supplies of fresh
water, food, trees for paper, etc., from this land.)

-- Norman Diamond

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