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GPS Used To Find Graves In Eco-Burial Sites
Narrative Fallacy writes "Relatives and friends will use a satellite navigation device to find graves of loved ones in Australia's eco-burial site on bushland attached to Lismore Memorial Park Cemetery, in New South Wales. Reflecting a worldwide trend towards environmentally friendly burials, the deceased will be buried in biodegradable coffins between gum trees in a protected koala sanctuary. 'It's an ideal way of utilizing land and helping wildlife and vegetation,' said Kris Whitney, Lismore Council coordinator of cemeteries. 'A family can walk around the bushland and pick a site. The body can be oriented in any direction. We promise there will be no internments within five meters. We'll record accurate GPS co-ordinates.' Families visiting graves would be lent a satellite navigation device. This will be Australia's fourth 'natural burial site' with existing sites in Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia."
I don't get it, why people find their earthly shells so importnt that they should be buried in expensive coffins with huge ceremonies.
It doesn't concern me one bit what happens to my carcass after death.
I recall my father once said he'd like his body just dumped to ocean in a bag after he's dead. Later he switched to wanting to be cremated and the ashes sprinkled in a forest where he used to play as a kid.
Well, he was cremated but my gradparents found it atrocious for him to be buried in common land and after all they got a burial place on "blessed" land for the urn.
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Replying to my own comment... Clinton turned off GPS signal degradation on May 2, 2000.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BMD/is_84_6/ai_61915190
I used a GPS on that occasion because it was in a huge overgrown Chinese cemetary and the people who guided us there won't be around forever either. I plan to leave the data with my nephew who will know how to use it in the future.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
fyi if your not from down under ;) ...things like having forks in the hair or Vegemite or toothpaste spread behind the ears will deter the creatures.
the ghouala is a close relative of the drop bear. [Fron wikipedia]Drop bears are commonly said to be unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping onto their heads from above.
You, sir, have apparently never geocached. My $75 GPS can be accurate up to 3m in very favorable conditions, and 5m-9m accuracy is normal.
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Why not donate your body to science?
They seem to have pretty good service - and it's free. If you want to cremate the leftover parts, they will do that, too. You can pick the ashes up for free, or have them sent to you through certified mail for only $15. (Way cheaper than your local crematorium.) Either way, someone gets some use out of your leftover meat.
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Cremation is very eco-unfriendly. You need a really hot oven (800C or something), and you're burning the body. Burial is better. If you don't want burial, then one option permitted in some countries is to freeze the body and then use ultrasound to shatter it into dust.