Friday, March 28, 2008
Banning Death
Talking of Brazil (see Emo Wars), here's a notable municipal initiative from the land where the nuts come from. I can see this one catching on - the likes of Dawn Motorola would just love to make us all crims for failing to look after ourselves. Meanwhile, the 'vertical cemeteries' mentioned in passing sound like rather a good space-saving wheeze. I suppose cremation's out of the question?
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"The areas 89% rivers", viking funerals perhaps ?
ReplyDelete"Vertical cemeteries", suggestions for the architect please.
I would nominate Morales but he`s already in one.
We are slowly being made crims "for failing to look after ourselves". There are constant warnings that before long the NHS will refuse treatment to those deemed to have brought their misfortune on themselves (regardless of the anti-Christian message and scientific mumbo-jumbo implicit in that claim).
ReplyDeleteAs for being buried upright, I'm surprised that Red Dawn hasn't cottoned on the huge savings in being hospitalized upright. Think of the space saved where all beds are vertical! The reduced occupancy times, the freedom from bedpans - and no more dodgy claims from staff for bad backs caused by lifting the bed-ridden because when you need to move a patient, or a stiff, you just release the straps and plonk they go down head-first onto the trolley. There could be a peerage in this for an efficiency-minded entrepreneur. I wonder who's up for the first Baron or Baroness Headbanger.
Mark, you should be runing the country.
ReplyDeleteMalty, shame it's too late for Soane...
ReplyDeleteThis fine fellow, memorialised on the Blog before, led the way on vertical burial.
ReplyDeleteMark, pop into my local hospital, 90 degree corridor parking is now the default method. Although this is to enable the doctors to squeeze past on pay day.
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