Take that archeologists in 1000 years!!
I was just thinking that anyone dealing with graves from that era now probably has to worry about it. heh. What a mess. Like a mine, only underground.
…I do realize that out of context, saying “like a mine only underground” makes little sense. lol :P
“Synonyms don’t cause any problems, just look at the sentence context” when “Mine, only underground.”
An actual rocket from the crypt
It’s still a big problem for people who like to get buried with their most praised possessions or monkey. Like maybe you want that big server with all the bit coin in it for the afterlife?
My uncle was buried with his 6 most regal macaques.
I first imagined this like it was Spock where they launched him out into space
In my mind, it was like one those burials where they push you out onto the ocean in a boat, but fast.
Same, I was thinking - designed to… sink, surely, not float? heh
I’d be kinda flattered if someone wanted to steal my corpse.
With a final push, Sam Wainwright levered the lid of the coffin open. There was a brief moment of surprise and confusion as he realized that the coffin contained an apparently-intact penguin, quickly replaced by horror as its eyes opened, its fangs extended, and it lunged forward.
wenk
So come the Rapture, do all the pieces float up individually or join back together like The Terminator?
I’m hoping it’s the former, then we can rename it the rupture.
It’s like homeopathy. The molecules remember the body they were a part of and coalesce as they rise up into the air. (But they don’t remember if they were poo, elsewise you’ve have ALL THE POO YOU EVER MADE IN YOUR LIFE smack into your bowels)
The only problem is collisions where molecules were a part of one body and then another body. Not sure who “wins”, but thankfully that’s pretty rare. Of course it sucks when it was a very crtiical molecule in, say, DNA or something. But God - the same God that puts cancer in children - I’m sure will figure it out.
Pretty sure they would be outlawed today under booby-trap laws, but, I mean, what are they gonna do to you?
They would prosecute the person who installed it, which was obviously not the dead person.
I agree with chemical_cutthroat that it’d probably be illegal to set one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantrap_(snare)
Mantraps that use deadly force are illegal in the United States, and in notable tort law cases the trespasser has successfully sued the property owner for damages caused by the mantrap. There is also the possibility that such traps could endanger emergency service personnel such as firefighters who must forcefully enter such buildings during emergencies. As noted in the important American court case of Katko v. Briney, “the law has always placed a higher value upon human safety than upon mere rights of property”.[5]
However, I think that there are viable ways that someone could rig it up before their death. Like, specify “use this prepared coffin in this specified way in the event of my death” and don’t mention any mantrap.
If the dead person installed it prior to their death, then their estate would be liable. If their estate has already been settled, though, I don’t think that there would be any viable recourse for someone who is injured or killed by such a trap.
But if the concern is theft of corpses for sale to medical schools…I don’t think that such a shortage exists any more.
searches
This says that it was largely an artifact of a period when people had moral objections to dissection of corpses, so didn’t want to donate their corpse, coupled with the rise of medical schools needing corpses. This says that it happened later than I expected, though, with the 1950s to 1970s being a big push for donation.
In 1962, Unitarian advocate Ernest Morgan published “A Manual of Simple Burial,” which promoted memorial services as alternatives to lavish funerals. He included a directory of medical schools and dental schools that accepted whole-body donations.
Journalist Jessica Mitford, in her wildly popular 1963 book that condemned the funeral industry, “The American Way of Death,” also endorsed that practice. She helped make giving your body to science a respectable, even noble, alternative to expensive conventional burials.
In the early 1960s, Protestant, Catholic and Reform Jewish leaders also came out in favor of donating bodies to science.
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, some anatomy departments began to organize memorial services to acknowledge donors and provide some closure for their loved ones.
Word of such efforts further encouraged whole-body donation.
Letters of encouragement
We reviewed dozens of unpublished letters to and from donors in the 1950s to the early 1970s, in which anatomy professors encouraged potential whole-body donors to see themselves as heroically giving to medical science. Early donors frequently expressed this altruistic vision, wanting their mortal shells to participate in advancing knowledge.
By the mid-1980s, most medical and dental schools relied on donated bodies to teach anatomy, although a few unclaimed bodies still make their way today to medical schools. Technology has revolutionized anatomy teaching, as with the National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project, but cadavers are still needed.
“the law has always placed a higher value upon human safety than upon mere rights of property”
God, I wish that were true
Clearly the solution is to set a womantrap instead.
What booby trap laws?
What exactly do they not allow? Am I allowed to have an alarm go off triggered by a trip wire?
You can type ‘booby trap laws’ into your favorite search engine. A wealth of information will present itself.
Typing in “boob” does the same as well
When you need your body for the afterlife and you don’t mind spending some time doing a jigsaw puzzle of your own chest.
I oppose mandatory waiting periods on coffin torpedos
