Burials

My plan in my youth was to be processed into fertilizer for someone's marijuana patch.I find cemeteries very interesting for the history they contain, like the fifteen or so toddlers and infants buried, all in 1892, in Duncan, Oklahoma. Measles, apparently. But yes, cemeteries are a pretty big waste of space in areas that have too little space. Cremation with scattered ashes or with closely-spaced urns would be way more practical, and I, at least, would be less icked out by ancestors' ashes than by formerly formaldehyde-soaked bodies.The whole subject of remembering/memorializing the dead is pretty odd, too - humans are the only critter that seems to do it beyond a few days.

"Sacred burial grounds of the American Indians," as in the racks some of the northern Plains Indians built to ensure that the dead really were reserved for "vulture food" as opposed to, say, coyote food? Really?