We were discussing this in the Reading Thread and I thought it was interesting.
Einherjer actually made a poll about this a couple years ago, but that was a long time ago and it's slow around here, so meh. He didn't have as many options either (it was just about donating the body). Also, my opinions have changed since then.
Thoughts?
Food-for-thought, copy-pasted from the Reading Thread:
Einherjer actually made a poll about this a couple years ago, but that was a long time ago and it's slow around here, so meh. He didn't have as many options either (it was just about donating the body). Also, my opinions have changed since then.
Thoughts?
Food-for-thought, copy-pasted from the Reading Thread:
Wikipedia wrote:Each year, 22,500 cemeteries across the United States bury approximately:
30 million board feet (70,000 m³) of hardwoods (caskets)
90,272 tons of steel (caskets)
14,000 tons of steel (vaults)
2,700 tons of copper and bronze (caskets)
1,636,000 tons of reinforced concrete (vaults)
827,060 US gallons (3,130 m³) of embalming fluid, which most commonly includes formaldehyde.