Sometimes it feels like playing up how everything is sacred for native Americans actually infantaliszes them and gives the American government a pass on the truly horrific wrongs committed against native Americans.
this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2024
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They literally say the entire world is sacred.
And the Native Americans I heard describing this weren’t jerks about it.
It seems to me that there is a lot of white knighting on this topic.
The dead don't care either way.
They dont, but the living very much do. My grandfather doesn't care if you piss on his corpse, but I will be more than a little upset.
The Catacombs of Paris would like to have a word..
Possible unpopular opinion: I wouldn't be upset if they dug up Arlington National Cemetery.
Either is ok with me. At that point , we're just fertilizer.
Build a space elevator and create a ring of bones around Earth.
Weird that we hoard human corpses. I told my wife I want to be tossed in the ocean to be eaten by all the animals, or give me a sky funeral where you're eaten by birds
I want to be buried in a forest without coffin or decor.
May the trees, other plants and fungi feast on my nutrients.
After all the ecological destruction i caused simply by being a member of society it feels like the least i CANT DO because it would be ILLEGAL.
There are few limited options.
All of them cost a fortune and most of that money is for stuff i do not care about. A box or urn, some person i never met that gives a speech.
Just put me in the ground and remember me, nothing else, please.
But to revert to the context of the meme.
I the dead person who gave my nutrients to the forest would be very upset if i knew they destroyed it. Graveyard on the other hand go ahead, build a neighborhood park instead.
Dig em both up followed by the golf courses
Alternately, don’t dig them up, but plant acres of native plants all over them and let it run wild.
I would like my body to be buried without any chemical treatment and an oak or aspen (depending on where I am buried) be planted right over me so that the tree can feed off of my corpse. Sadly, that's illegal in most places.
Works for me!
so... creating useful land with what previously had people that died expanding an empire is a bad thing why?
Well said.
The double standard is called a power move. Bring sacred isn't what matters. Being what the current power system decides is right is what matters. Sucks though.