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Use GPS to Find Your Dead In New Forest Graveyards

Linux_all_the_way — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:22:20 EDT

I salute you and if you go before me it would be an honor if I could attend such a ceremony, of course wearing the proper attire of a chemical hazard suit and standing a good distance away up wind. And instead of throwing some flowers on the fire I would throw some dioxin and PCBs on the flames in your honor.

Linux_all_the_way

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jkr — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:14:29 EDT

@hammertime1994: did i in any way, shape, or form imply that our industry does not have a negative impact on the environment. What I was stating was that grave stones should be considered very, very, very far down the list, so far, that they shouldn't be mentioned. And who says that our respiration is accounted for? God? whatever you accounted for means. Now if you had said naturally recycled, still doesn't dispute my argument. green house gas is just that, regardless of who is breathing it out.

jkr

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Mr.Wilson — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:16:53 EDT

I got confused for a second when I read the first part in the articles list... I was thinking they were planning on just plopping koala sanctuaries and gum trees all over the place, since they didn't mention Australia until I looked at the whole article!
I would find it hilarious for someone to randomly get someone to make such a thing in the US, though.

Mr.Wilson

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dingus — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:28:28 EDT

@Linux_all_the_way: I want to be cremated atop a pyre of truck tires, mercury thermometers, and old car batteries in Al Gore's backyard.

dingus

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acasto — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:39:47 EDT

Or go with Cotton Hill's method and have your head cut off and mailed to the emperor of Japan!

acasto

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Amiash Loves You — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:28:42 EDT

Why Cant they just bury it in the backyards?!

less space.

Amiash Loves You

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Lupison — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:17:41 EDT

If someone started this in the US I'd totaly sign up for it.

Lupison

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TheCyberBob — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:31:47 EDT

Man that graphic made my day.

As a side note I'd have in my will that my geocached coffin would have the coordinates of a local McDonalds. You know. Just to mess with the heads of the living.

TheCyberBob

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frigg — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:08:25 EDT

Add a Dash GPS with user-generated traffic pattern generators, and this could let you know the hellish or heavenly whereabouts of your loved one. And how long it took for them to arrive at their destination.

frigg

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hammertime1994 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:44:43 EDT

@jkr: HUMAN CO2 "exhaust" due to respiration are accounted for in the environment, but not all of our emissions due to industry.

hammertime1994

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ThePhantomOfTheNet — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:44:37 EDT

It's already started. Go and try a Live Search for Soylent Green:

[search.live.com]

And take a look at the EBay ad on the right.

ThePhantomOfTheNet

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ThePhantomOfTheNet — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:39:36 EDT

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ThePhantomOfTheNet

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strider_mt2k — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:01:27 EDT

South Jersey is nicer. ;)

This whole concept of burying the dead is outmoded.
The fact that they're marrying high tech with it is highly ironic.
Playing hide and seek, well that's just weird man.

We could be harvesting the dead for their moisture and valuable chemicals instead of wasting the materials in landfills.

strider_mt2k

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Katorok — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:12:41 EDT

@jkr: I mean aside from the insane property tax, congestion, bad drivers, it's not that.. bad...

Katorok

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jkr — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:16:10 EDT

@Katorok: heaven and hell is what we make of it, but everybody agrees that hell is nicer than NJ

jkr

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Katorok — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:47:52 EDT

@adrunkenmonkey: What's this talk about NJ seeming like a bad place?! I lived there for 10+ years, and it's a nice place.. In the places that are nice at least..

Katorok

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Linux_all_the_way — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:59:30 EDT

When I go I want to be as big of an asshole in death as I am in life. I want to be embalmed and buried in a lead coffin in some ultra liberal loud mouthed environmentally hypocritical place like in Massachusetts where they apposed that wind farm in Cape Cod Bay. Oh and I want my body to be transported there in an antique diesel semi-truck that is fifty years old and emits lots of greenhouse gases and carcinogens.

Linux_all_the_way

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ibelli — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:49:21 EDT

Check this out:

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ibelli

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adrunkenmonkey — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:27:50 EDT

@Lestat: I thought being in NJ was like being dead...

adrunkenmonkey

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adrunkenmonkey — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:26:45 EDT

I hear on your deathbed you will recieve total consciousness....so you go that going for you. See, I'm not the only one that can rattle off Caddyshack quotes, you clever bastards.

adrunkenmonkey

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johnnyabnormal — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:17:56 EDT

@tokiwartooth: Actually, I bet Nutbastard would do it for free, just to piss off the man.

johnnyabnormal

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dingus — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:07:15 EDT

@Hiphopopotamus: I had that song out of my head by 3pm this afternoon. I hate you and your stupid Gene Shalit face. And tomatoes.

dingus

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Hiphopopotamus — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:44:33 EDT

@Joetimek: Except the Browns.

Hiphopopotamus

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Joetimek — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:28:41 EDT

I want to be buried under the 50-yard line of a random professional stadium.

Joetimek

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bonkboy90 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:26:05 EDT

umm, I've got a possibly stupid question. What tv show or movie is that guy in the graphic from? I remember watching him/it.

bonkboy90

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johnnyabnormal — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:05:46 EDT

@tokiwartooth: If it's illegal for my body to be buried the way I want, I'll hire someone to do it for me anyway.

johnnyabnormal

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johnnyabnormal — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:03:37 EDT

@zarquon: Really? I must have been hallucinating the other day when I walked my dog past the GIS/GPS relay station in Point Richmond, CA and read a placard explaining how it is used to track plate tectonics and correct GPS coordinates. I know lat and lon don't change, but you can track plate drift and alter your coordinates to account for any changes.

@Reilaos~: "One problem with biodegrading bits is that graveyards like that stink"

If you're 6 feet under, nobody will smell you.

johnnyabnormal

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tokiwartooth — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:55:12 EDT

This is a great idea.

If it weren't illegal, i'd happily just have my body dumped in the desert (i'm from Australia) to be pecked away by scavengers.

tokiwartooth

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itchytooth — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:39:51 EDT

Or we could just eat them. Win-win?

itchytooth

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ORryOwl — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:07:38 EDT

What is the need for this? Are the dead moving around?

ORryOwl

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whits — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:04:10 EDT

next-gen hide and seek?

whits

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Reilaos~ — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:59:40 EDT

One problem with biodegrading bits is that graveyards like that stink. That's one of the purposes of the whole incense in churches and in a person thing.

I personally have thought of an elaborate process that would involve my ashes and the forging of a sword and planting a tree in remaining ashes, but it's only something I entertain for amusement purposes.

Reilaos~

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zarquon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:48:16 EDT

@johnnyabnormal No, GPS doesn't track plate tectonics. The plates move all over the place, but lat and lon are always grid-like. Think about India smashing into Asia (to raise the Himalayas), the lats and lons on one of those continents would have to change.
And by constellation I meant of the GPS satellites. Their arrangement in the sky affects the device's accuracy.

zarquon

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johnnyabnormal — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:35:48 EDT

@zarquon: GPS tracks changes plate tectonics, so that won't be a big deal if you need adjusted coordinates. But, constellations? WTF?

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zarquon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:10:29 EDT

ok, A) most hand held GPS devices are good to about 5-10 feet depending on the constellation, so without any marker, you'll get close-ish to the actual grave. 2) Plate tectonics means that lat and lon aren't actually that immutable. Maybe not a big deal in Australia, but in California one big earthquake would put you several feet away from your stated lat and lon. D) I don't get why this is better than scattering ashes; either way there's nothing to see, but you can feel an emotional connection to a particular place. But that's not for me to judge.

zarquon

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godwhacker — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:04:03 EDT

@wilson rothman
"I've always complained that cemeteries and golf courses were great wastes of space"

a semi-direct rip-off of one of rodney dangerfield's
lines from caddyshack

just sayin.......

godwhacker

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imTheKing — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:00:03 EDT

we definitely need to stop doing the whole non biodegradable coffins. It's because of stupid religious beliefs that most of this nonsense exists anyway.

imTheKing

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Hiphopopotamus — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:59:47 EDT

Mmmm whacha say,
Mmmm that you only meant well?
well of course you did
Mmmm whacha say,
Mmmm that its all for the best?
Because it is

Hiphopopotamus

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johnnyabnormal — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:51:52 EDT

@Amiash: Really? I might be wrong, but I think traditional Tibetan burials leave you exposed to have your bones picked clean by vultures. Regardless, to quote Chancho from "Nacho Libre":

"I believe in science!"

Another natural method might be to simply dumped at sea. I heard the mafia has been using this peaceful method for years...

johnnyabnormal

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theimmc — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:48:56 EDT

@Leonard Nimrod: The Cryptmaster's sign which says 40.4N, 74W.

theimmc

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goochillini — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:42:49 EDT

@Lestat: i guess nothing, it is better than Philly.

goochillini

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Lestat — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:36:48 EDT

@goochillini: What's wrong with being buried in NJ?

Lestat

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javed — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:14:33 EDT

Jack needs not worry about heavy rain in Australia. We have had a few drop as of late but 'heavy'??? I'd like to see that!!! Half of NSW is still drought declared. I can just see someone following their trusty GPS to their loved ones burial location to find a family of 6 having a nice picnic under a shady gum tree.........Or a steaming pile of roo poo.

javed

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Amiash Loves You — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:09:28 EDT

@johnnyabnormal: you know, Muslims bury thier Dead using plain white clothes.. and yes, people should adapt that also.

Amiash Loves You

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Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:07:54 EDT

Lookout for muggles.

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packetsniffer — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:04:34 EDT

"Cremation emits foul greenhouse gases"
"Foul greenhouse gases"? Really?

"embalming fluid and coffin varnishes and glues can harm the groundwater"
Plausible

"coffins deplete non-sustainable forestry"
Flat out not true -- to a laughable degree.

"and granite headstones require CO2-emission-heavy shipments from China (at least for Australians)"
Oh come on, now you're really taking this to far.

packetsniffer

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goochillini — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:57:14 EDT

coorodinates on the card in pic of the crypt keeper...@Leonard Nimrod:

coorodinates on the card in pic of the crypt keeper...

goochillini

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johnnyabnormal — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:46:50 EDT

Funny, I just told my wife this morning that when I die I want to be wrapped in simple cloth, buried under a redwood tree and have the GPS coordinates given to the relatives if they want to visit. Screw the chemicals, coffins, absurd costs and waste of space. I'd rather respect the natural cycles of life and death by being absorbed back into the environment than pollute my body as a final f*@k you to nature. Nothing says that better than feeding lots of worms and becoming plant food.

johnnyabnormal

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Amiash Loves You — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:37:21 EDT

hmm..i find this will be hard for most of people. why cant they just put some mark in every graveyard it's not necessarily have to be gravestones, A Dead tree branch would do with name and codes engraved in it.

Amiash Loves You

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Leonard Nimrod — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:32:43 EDT

@goochillini: How do you get "New Jersey" from "The graves, located at Lismore Memorial Park Cemetery in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia"?

Leonard Nimrod

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LJN — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:29:24 EDT

Geocaching coffins? I can see it now....

"First to find! TNLNSL! P.S. Needs maintenance, smells bad."

LJN

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ltcmurray — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:28:52 EDT

wait, biodegradable coffins? Lat/Long to the "gravesite"?

Follow that worm!

ltcmurray

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jkr — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:24:41 EDT

yep, so we've finally gotten to the point where we say that tombstones create too much green house gas. Here's a though, people breathing cause green house gas, maybe we should start offing each other? I like the idea of buring people in a nature reserve though.

jkr

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goochillini — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:18:41 EDT

buried in New Jersey? no thank you.

goochillini

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gforce — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:18:02 EDT

@redkamel: It's the production and shipment of the tombstones that create greenhouse gas emissions and harm the environment.

gforce

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redkamel — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:09:46 EDT

What? Why would simple stone markers scattered in the forest ruin the ecosystem? theres already rocks there. People wandering to the grave sites will do more damage. Also, one is basically guaranteed to be walking over the remains of dead people...which is a big no no...

love the graphic

redkamel