Roman church decorated with 4k skeletons

Post by naveen99 » Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 9:45 PM UTC

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"Who promised you tomorrow?" - St. Alphonsus Liguori, Preparation for Death

People were never seriously interested in extending their lives. I submit that there's a pretty easy, macabre (to most) way to go about it: Monoclonal antigen-free body farms. Grow human bodies in labs -- farmed donor bodies -- and get good at head transplants. This cures most cancers, most diseases, skipping the complicated molecular biology we've yet to solve for. Literally replace your whole body as it ages. You c…

Escaping mortality won’t be so easy. Glioblastoma multiforme is a nasty cancer of the brain. Neuro vascular, degenerative diseases will kill you also. Then there are viruses that give you encephalitis. A hammer and a bullet can be hard to repair also. Even if you move your brain to a computer, hard drives fail, bits get corrupted, computer viruses, denial of service attacks. Mortality is key to survival of the fittest. It’s basically a tautology because the fittest will kill the unfit. There is no immortality against a more powerful being who wants you dead.

Post by NoZebra120vClip » Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 12:59 AM UTC

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Roman Catholic culture is one of those by far. What better way to attest to the sacredness of human remains but to incorporate them into the most sacred architecture we have? Human remains of Catholics are buried until their cause for canonization calls for exhumation and examination of the relics. By the time of canonization, division of the relics has begun and they are distributed for veneration to various communi…

> Human remains of Catholics are buried until Until your family stops paying for the grave. Then someone else will get the place.

I don't know where you live, but this is not the case worldwide. I have heard tell, yes, of places in Germany or somewhere else in Europe, where it is customary for a family to pay installments/subscription for a temporary grave, where the remains are left to decay down to bones. And then the remains are extracted and placed in a more compact crypt or charnel house, and the family stops payments on the full-size grave, which can then be reused for other occupants.

But in my part of the world, remains are "permanently" housed in cemeteries, crypts, colmbariums, etc. The family pays once for the interment and the plot. The cemeteries themselves are self-sustaining businesses which typically have a large endowment so that they can operate in perpetuity, with assurances of maintenance and upkeep far beyond any family's ability to sustain payments.

I think we can all agree that it would be absolutely absurd to expect families to continue paying in perpetuity for a burial place for their ancestors. Can you imagine the exponential financial burdens that would result?!

Re: Roman church decorated with 4k skeletons

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