It all started with the plague: The
origins of “six feet under” come from
a 1665 outbreak in England. As the
disease swept the country, the mayor
of London literally laid down the law
about how to deal with the bodies to
avoid further infections. Among his
specifications—made in “Orders
Conceived and Published by the Lord
Major and Aldermen of the City of
London, Concerning the Infection of
the Plague”—was that “all the graves
shall be at least six feet deep.”
The law eventually fell out of favor
both in England and its colonies.
Modern American burial laws vary
from state to state, though many
states simply require a minimum of
18 inches of soil on top of the casket
or burial vault (or two feet of soil if
the body is not enclosed in anything).
Given an 18-inch dirt buffer and the
height of the average casket (which,
based on the ones I just looked at,
appears to be approximately 30
inches), a grave as shallow as four
feet would be fine.
A typical modern burial involves a
body pumped full of chemical
preservatives sealed inside a sturdy
metal casket, which is itself sealed
inside a steel or cement burial vault.
It’s less of a hospitable environment
for microbes than the grave used to
be. For untypical burials, though—
where the body isn’t embalmed, a
vault isn’t used, or the casket is wood
instead of metal or is foregone
entirely—even these less strict burial
standards provide a measure of
safety and comfort. Without any
protection, and subjected to a few
years of soil erosion, the bones of the
dearly departed could inconveniently
and unexpectedly surface or get too
close to the living, scaring people and
acting as disease vectors. The
minimum depth helps keep the dead
down where they belong.


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Scary stuff.

braine: Scary stuff.

What's so scary about death?

If you Live a worthy and fulfilled life death shouldn't be scary to you.

It is inevitable.

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You think is a coincidence that man was created on the six day, so man indirectly will be buried by six feet under . Reason with me, the things of the world are just spiritual .