What will happen when we run out of land to bury coffins?

Question

One thing that you can always count on would be that people are constantly dying all the time all around the world-- how do we keep finding places to store them??

Answer 1

lol. maybe weel just throw them in the lake. idk, nothings impossible.

Answer 2

I guess we'd all have to recycle. That is, eat the dead human bodies so that way they aren't in the way at all. Then it will be a big circle once we digest the human bodies and it becomes waste....or, if we run out of room, we'll just have to learn to share coffins! It's kind of like a "locker buddy," only you're dead so you have no idea someone is in the same space as your dead carcass. Or we could nuke all the countries and get rid of everything, including bodies, and then start all over again.

Answer 3

IF YOU CAN GET YOUR COMMUNITY TO CREMATE EACH, YOU'D HAVE MORE LAND IN AMERICA. THEY WONT FEEL IT.

Answer 4

They have above gound mausoleums that are built upwards and take up much less space. If they ran out of space completely they could use cremation.

Answer 5

Cremation

Answer 6

they could start burying them standing up.  or stacked on top of each other.

Answer 7

We don't run out of land to bury people! There is way to much land to run out. But say we did then most of our bodies would be cremated or if humans are really desperate we will probably throw the bodies into the sea(I know practically water pollution, but look at what we have already done to this world.) But... if I were you I woudln't really worry about it because you will probably be long gone.

Answer 8

then we move to mars and bury people into their coffins there

Answer 9

We really do not need coffins... just bury the people.

If we bury people under 2 metres of soil, we can dig down almost 2 metres and bury another person, and still have almost 2 metres of soil above the new layer. We can repeat that almost indefinitely if we choose to add a few cm of new soil each layer.

To demonstrate this to yourself, just try burying a layer of bricks under a foot of sand, then dig down to the top of the first layer of bricks, add another layer of bricks. You still have almost the same amount of sand to cover the new layer of bricks.

We could do this by sinking bodies, encased in a thin layer of concrete, into deep parts of the ocean. It might eventually raise the level of water, but we would never notice it.