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09-06-2014 4:45 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Leroy Jenkins
09-06-2014 2:27 PM

On burials
Cremation is increasingly popular now, but just think of the impact on the archaeologists of the future!
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What are those poor folks going to do????
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
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09-07-2014 3:11 PM 		Reply to: Message 20 by Theodoric
09-07-2014 1:45 PM

I plan to be in a simple wooden box. I know a couple woodworkers that are willing to build a simple tasteful coffin. Ideally, I would rather just be left in the woods for the wildlife to feast upon and scatter, but I don't think my wife would appreciate the dogs dragging parts of me up to the back porch.
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Check out the various bone farms. These are used extensively in forensic research, and produce a lot of good information.
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Body farm - Wikipedia
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One of my Anthropology professors had his body sent there, then went on to the Smithsonian where he was on display for quite a while (maybe still is).
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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
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It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
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If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
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If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1
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"Multiculturalism" does not include the American culture. That is what it is against.
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