[ SECRET POST #3503 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3503 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

I'm wondering how much this is a matter of national culture and how much it's regional/dependent on the geography of the place the cemetery happens to be in? I live in the northeastern US and I know a bunch of cemeteries around that are full of trees.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

It is a money thing. Trees take up space that can be used to sell plots. Even the dead must be monetized.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

ooooooooooooh shit its the capitalist reaper

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

But a grave isn't an office building? You don't need to level an entire forest, just clear an area slightly larger than a person. That shouldn't include more than one tree and maybe some shrubbery.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

A grave's more like a cubicle in an office building.
Gotta pack as many bodies in as you can, side by side, in boxes. ;)

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

Er, a grave has to be a lot bigger than "slightly larger than a person". You're thinking only of surface area and forgetting about depth. Not having trees in a graveyard means not having to deal with tree roots when you're trying to dig a hole 6+ft. deep.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. Quick rule of thumb, width of the canopy is the spread of the roots. Chop through a main root and the tree might die, plus what happens if the tree is blown over? It can pull bodies out with its roots. Not to mention that depending on local legislation you can get up to three people in each grave. So that grave might have to be opened a couple more times to add a new stiff...er beloved deceased. You'll have to chop through fresh roots each time, increasing chance of tree death and bodies a'popping if it blows over.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

It's also an efficiency thing. If you have no trees, and the gravestones are all flush with the ground, it's quicker and easier to mow.

The cemetery where my mom's family are buried is like this. It's so dreary and ugly. That it's the middle of Iowa is no excuse. The old municipal cemetery (where people are still buried all the time) has dozens of beautiful well-grown oak, beech and pine trees. At one time in the US, before Frederick Law Olmsted and the movement to build city parks, the local cemetery was often the closest thing to a park available to citizens. People would tend the family graves, then picnic there.