Death exists in the past
Death exists in the future
Mankind’s effect on the environment is multitudinous.
I cannot
help but believe mankind as the future cause of the death of our environment, and
mankind itself will be part of the pollution.
There are
over seven billion people on the face of the earth and before the next
millennium those seven billion people will be dead.
How to
dispose of seven billion bodies? Some
will be cremated, and that is a sensible solution; but many are still electing
to bury the dead.
What a waste
of land that could be used in farming, housing or commerce.
Fifty years
after you are dead no one will remember you; and yet, if you are buried, you will
be occupying space that could be better utilized – and to what purpose?
Walking
through some of the old Maine cemeteries I find the stones interesting. The death mask and epitaphs, the year born
and died are a marker for a time in history.
Burying was practical back then; crematoriums were not available and the
world had less than a billion people (1700’s estimated 700 million.)
Today, and
into the future, burying the dead is pollution.
Have a happy weekend
while you still can
the
Ol’Buzzard
