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\nA group of Australian farmers have won permission to open a ‘feet-first’
\n graveyard.<\/p>\nThe eco-friendly cemetery will bury the deceased vertically to save space
\n and in bio degradable bags in a field to be used later as pasture.<\/p>\nTony Dupleix, chairman of the farmers’ cooperative set up 20 years ago
\n when the idea was first mooted, said it was a ‘no fuss’ alternative to
\n traditional burials.<\/p>\n"When you die, you are returned to the earth with a minimum of fuss
\n and with no paraphernalia that would affect the environment," he
\n said.<\/p>\n"You’re not burning 90kg of gas in a crematorium and there’s no
\n ongoing maintenance costs.\n <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThis is news? One of the most persistent and profound traits ingrained
\n in EVERY human culture ever encountered is rituals associated with burial,
\n the afterlife, and the transition from this life to the next. Yet within
\n this universal cultural manifestation the individual cultural variety
\n is astounding.<\/p>\nAlmost every conceivable burial position has been the way to go in some
\n society or other. The clear favorite over time is the tried and true
\n fetal position, on the theory that it was the position we assumed BEFORE
\n coming into this world, so we should return to it when we check out.
\n However, we have seen corpses sitting cross legged, sitting legs folded,
\n sitting on haunches, sitting on a chair, standing, standing on head,
\n kneeling,
\n kneeling because the legs were cut off, lying on side, lying on back,
\n cannonball style, cannonball style stuffed in giant clay urns, all-fours,
\n doggy style, arms splayed, legs akimbo, hanging from trees and shrunken
\n into thick glass jars, to mention but a few.<\/p>\nWe took the above photo on our recent trip to Peru at the Huaca Juliana,
\n a pre-Incan site quite near downtown Lima. This is currently a very active
\n site, despite having been scoured for gems, precious metals and salable
\n artifacts years ago. It is only recently being systematically unearthed
\n and examined by archeologists, who are discovering new stuff daily. While
\n we were there, for example, they discovered the first flight of stairs (the rest of
\n the complex uses inclined ramps). Interestingly, this culture, coincidentally
\n called the Lima, believed in a particularly bloody
\n form
\n of Feng Shui. <\/p>\nTheir pyramids were built up over centuries, basically by periodically
\n razing the exiting structures, laying a new floor on the rubble, and
\n building the next layer on top. However, when performing one of these periodic
\n make-overs, their religion demanded that they make multiple human sacrifices
\n and leave the bodies interred under the new floor, to insure the spiritual
\n sanctity of the new digs. In the specific room where we took the
\n photo diggers told us they had discovered 8 bodies, all young women between
\n 10-12, all killed immediately before burial when the floor was set.<\/p>\nOur own teen sacrifices, like the Olsen twins, might not have it so
\n bad after all…..<\/p>\nAs to our own personal preference, we can’t make up our mind. We vacillate
\n from one position to the other. Right now, we are leaning toward being
\n buried
\n in the classic
\n NFL lineman three-point stance. Haven’t decided yet which helmet we’ll
\n wear into the Valhalla Hall of Fame…<\/p>\nfrom Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n
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A group of Australian farmers have won permission to open a ‘feet-first’ graveyard. The eco-friendly cemetery will bury the deceased vertically to save space and in bio degradable bags in a field to be used later as pasture. Tony Dupleix, … Continue reading