I have pondered on this for a while so I decided to make a little research.

The "six-feet" idiom came to be during the Great Plague of London in 1665. With 20 percent of London’s population succumbing to the Bubonic plague, the death rate had reached over 8,000 per week. The disease continued to sweep the country due in part to the shallow graves that bodies were buried in, or so they believed at the time.
In an effort to limit the outbreak, The Lord Mayor of London enacted a series of rules in regard to the plague, which included a mandate that all graves be buried a minimum of six feet deep.
The law fell into disuse for a time as dead bodies were not responsible for the spread of the disease.
The law was eventually overturned in England and its colonies, but this didn’t last long. By the 19th century medical science had seen a huge increase in the use of human cadavers for teaching purposes. While most bodies used were executed criminals, the indigent or donated bodies, the increasing demand led to a shortage of corpses. This demand created a new type of criminal, the Resurrectionists; criminals who stole corpses, also known as “body snatching.”
Grave robbing became a lucrative business.
Grave robbing became a very profitable business. Some grave robbers were able to dig up four corpses per night in less than two hours to sell to the medical colleges. They could perform this task so quickly because during this period many bodies were buried only six inches below the surface. As the fear of being exhumed and displayed in an anatomical theatre for dissection haunted the aristocracy, the law reverted to the old standard of being buried six feet deep.
Modern American burial laws vary from state to state, with many states requiring just a minimum of 18 inches of soil on top of the casket or burial vault. Given an 18-inch dirt buffer and the height of the average casket, a grave as shallow as four feet would be sufficient, but old habits die hard and six feet deep is now standard.

Nd I didn't knw all this while

I will prefer cremation when i die very soon/sooner.

Hmm

Noted

crotonite:
I will prefer cremation when i die very soon/sooner.

I like ur spirit.. not scared of death, yea?
I read that cremation is more hygienic

spartoo:


I like ur spirit.. not scared of death, yea?
I read that cremation is more hygienic

why should one fear death when [s]he must surely die. well, i don't think cremation is the most hygienic mode of corpse disposal, it is just an instant decomposition and that is why i prefer it.

spartoo:


I like ur spirit.. not scared of death, yea?
I read that cremation is more hygienic

Me I intend donating my vital organs soon as the doctor certify me flat line. There are lives to be saved, Think about that.

aaronson:
Me I intend donating my vital organs soon as the doctor certify me flat line. There are lives to be saved, Think about that.

u hav a point.. jst keep ur vital organs in good shape

crotonite:
why should one fear death when [s]he must surely die. well, i don't think cremation is the most hygienic mode of corpse disposal, it is just an instant decomposition and that is why i prefer it.

jst don't worry about th decomposition part my friend .. ur loved ones will take care of that

spartoo:



jst don't worry about th decomposition part my friend .. ur loved ones will take care of that

..... spending so much money throwing parties (funeral) on my behalf hell no!

Just to prevent theft.. And we Africans r just copy copy. We dnt knw why dey do it yet we practice it like we own it....

izsmike:
Just to prevent theft.. And we Africans r just copy copy. We dnt knw why dey do it yet we practice it like we own it....

most of our daily activities are borrowed, even eating with a spoon

This is a very reasonable topic

I have always thought about it too and whenever I ask questions, I never get direct answers

Same here

Nice one!!

Op, so yhu want to hear stories that touches the heart after burying the dead in a shallow grave abi? Dont yhu know scavengers like hyena and HUMAN BEINGs with hyena like behaviours can dug out the dead and do something nasty with it??!

Abeg park well small

Never knew!

Wow, I didn't know too

crotonite:
I will prefer cremation when i die very soon/sooner.

just checked ur dp, seems u have cheated dead since a decade ago

crotonite:
I will prefer cremation when i die very soon/sooner.

I swear down. Burial seems so lonely.

why even bury a human being, cremate the fucking being and smoke the fucking ashes men!!

power900:
why even bury a human being, cremate the fucking being and smoke the fucking ashes men!!

so u also prefer cremation?

sinaj:
Nd I didn't knw all this while

Please just one round

crotonite:
I will prefer cremation when i die very soon/sooner.

your entourage might probably smoke your ashes too

mrkayusfit:



Please just one round

of wot

sinaj:
of wot

Of hot s*x

haryomikun:

I swear down. Burial seems so lonely.

exactly, 1 man big coffin in a deep underground. especially when the perverted exhumers target ur grave God forbid.

mrkayusfit:



Of hot s*x

do you fear death

pendusky:


just checked ur dp, seems u have cheated dead since a decade ago

lol... dat is not me ooo. me still young

crotonite:
do you fear death

Because u be cultist bah? Wetin concern u for who i chose to fuccck