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Originally posted by Rodney
Problem is, today's embalming techniques, cement lined graves (to reduce moisture), and built-to-last caskets provide a grave installation that just doesn't go away in a hundred years --- or even several hundred. At some point it's all going to become impractical, and those graves will have to be torn up -- either that, or we take a state like South Dakota, which is emptying out of live people, and make it one huge graveyard.
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I wonder if, hundreds of years from now, people are just going to decide that they don't care about these people from the year 2000 that no one remembers and pull them out of the ground.
Or if archaeologists of their time pull us up for research purposes.
If our land was filled up with gravestones of people from 1700, I imagine that one of the two above things would be happening all over the place, although some people would certainly complain about it.