Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Man Patents Self-Burying Coffin

Posted by samzenpus on from the ashes-to-ashes-righty-tighty dept.

disco_tracy writes "A California inventor has filed a patent for a coffin that screws into the ground vertically. The reason? It greatly reduces excavation labor and burial costs, decreases land use, and opens up more space for burials in unused areas of a cemetery. Writer Clark Boyd also lists 5 other unconventional burial options, including lye, ecopods, GPS devices that track bodies buried without headstones, cryogenics and — my favorite — getting buried in the sky."

2 of 159 comments (clear)

  1. mix the ash with concrete by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Interesting

    make a structure OUT OF dead people, not over them. not necessarily mausoleums and cenotaphs, but houses for the living too, or town squares: you become, literally, part of the community you helped to build/ that you loved

    ok, it's a little creepy

    "dad, where's grandpa?"

    "in the third load bearing column by the kitchen"

    at the very least, it would be a good backstory for a horror movie, or ghostbusters iii

    --
    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  2. My Favorite by b4upoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why go to all that negative bother? A good old fashioned gator pit suits me. Not only is burial not even an issue but the hides from the happy, and well fed gators make lovely luggage. The rest of the gators harvested could be used as hog feed.