Man Patents Self-Burying Coffin

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."

Comments

mix the ash with concrete

[circletimessquare]

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