My favorite Halifax fun fact: In 1917, a munitions ship exploded in Halifax Harbor. To commemorate the event, the City Council created ‘Splodey, the Halifax explosion mascot.
In addition, each public broadcast of Shaggy’s “Mr. Boombastic” is followed by a moment of silence
IIRC that event is, to this day, the most powerful non-nuclear man-made explosion to ever happen.
'SPLODEY. I’m trageadorable!
I’d rather have that than be preserved for centuries. I honestly prefer cremation to burial. Heck, feed me to the birds for all I care, just let me unexist completely.
There’s a sort of solace in that. That one day I’ll completely cease to exist. I don’t know why religious people like the idea of eternal life. I’d very much prefer not to exist after a while.
The atoms that you are made of will not cease to exist until our sun explodes and makes them into something else.
You will either get buried and rot into sustenance for worms and bacteria or you will get cooked into carbon and calcium to be spread out and become intermixed with the soil.
So will everyone that currently exists barring nuclear annihilation. I find solace that my atoms will maybe be a tree or a bird or even just grass.
I won’t exist. That’s enough lol.
No super advanced aliens/robots reincarnating you!
I got to tour a terramation (human composting) facility a little while back. You come out in a few burlap sacks of mulch. They even threw in some wicked t shirts.
Finally, the perfect shirt to wear to bullshit meetings.
Sooo just like any regular graveyard?
Most graveyards are more basic.
Then how is it we often times find the skeletons of our ancestors deep in the soil?
(Don’t want to sound sour though)
So you are not using coffins?
Somewhat interestingly, in acidic soils the minerals, bones, teeth and metal vaults dissolve more easily, but organic matter, wood, flesh, fats are more preserved.
Pickles!
The last of Barrett’s Privateers?
Goddamn them all. I was told we’d cruise the seas for American gold.
We’d fire no guns, shed no tears!
But I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett’s Privateers
Stay shanty, Lemmy
Given enough time, all graveyards are like that
I guess they’ve got hard water in that city too.
Save on archeology assessments by not having any remains.
Modern problems and all that.
Sustainable
Legitimately interesting fact. I was recently in Halifax and wandered the Old Burying Ground, really neat place. Weird to think there’s nothing under those stones.
I mean, it the same everywhere it just that someplace it take suuper long. In who much time do with happend ? Is it quicker than the famous 40 days of the calcareous sarcophages ?
I feel like if Halifax had some weird super destructive dirt like that I’d have heard about it, I may be in Manchester but I’m not that far from it haha.
This isn’t a meme.
Wait, I though all buried bodies worldwide are supposed to disintegrate at some point?
That’s just flat wrong. Soil pH out that way is about 4 at the lowest.
On top of that bones are large, with low surface area, meaning it’ll take a long time for them to ‘dissolve’. Ok top of that, you would expect to see this in other locations