Creepy hurricane photo.

[tannybogus]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of.html

[Mojorabbit]

1. Like a zombie movie nt

[ProdigalJunkMail]

2. why is a picture of a tanker truck in Houston area...

oh, i see.

sP

[Javaman]

20. They use the tanker to store the old bodies before they are turned into...

SOYLENT GREEN!!!!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

21. mmmmm...it's people-licious! n/t

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. evidence enough for me to be cremated...

no weirding out the locals after a hurricane...

sP

[Caoimhe]

5. When I was a kid

I read a book (I wish I could remember the name, but it's a classic) where a very young soldier is dug in, fighting in WW1. He finds himself in a graveyard with bomb craters all around and ends up taking refuge in a coffin with a corpse while bombs fall all around him, heaving coffins and corpses like matchsticks. I knew then that I would be cremated. I don't want to become anyone's nightmare after I'm dead, ever.

[Sequoia]

10. And when I was a kid

I read somewhere in the Bible (OT)about how people would rise from their graves and walk amongst the living when something happened, second coming, I don't remember but I thought I didn't want to rise from the grave, that's for sure. Maybe it was a reference to vampires (wink).

[Love Bug]

12. Actually, that's from one of the Gospels (I don't remember which one)

on the day Jesus was crucified, at the time of his death the curtain in the Temple was rent and many of the dead were resurrected and seen walking around for several days. At least that's how I remember it from Sunday School. Freeky stuff!

[Sequoia]

23. Zombies!

[Arugula Latte]

8. The whole embalming and burying thing is so weird to me.

"Green" burials are one thing, where you're wrapped in a biodegradable shroud, but this pump-me-full-of-chemicals-and-stick-me-in-a-box stuff is really strange.

I'm gonna be turned into ashes also.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

22. it is either ashes or a pine box

for me...i don't know why people show so much reverence for a shell...i mean, when i am gone, i am gone. the body is just a bunch of stuff that should be recycled!

sP

[Arugula Latte]

27. Yep, I agree. I'm going to donate my body to science.

They can do with it whatever they want -- might as well get some use out of the damn thing! :)

[SoCalDem]

25. Some state laws require embalming..even if you are cremated

Years back (law may have changed by now) when my friend's husband died, she wanted to have him cremated, and the law made her embalm him first AND buy a casket..

Funeral business lobbyists at work :(

[Arugula Latte]

28. That is so messed up on so many levels.

I've never read it, but I know that Jessica Mitford's "The American Way of Death" exposed the funeral industry about 30 years ago. Luckily there are options in some states for "green" burials.

[MadrasT]

4. Wow. All the pictures on the linked site are just amazing. n/t

[Mabus]

7. I think I finished looking at them a few minutes ago

I'm not sure. I just realized how stunned I was.

[crispini]

11. They are. What an amazing collection of photos. nt

[d_b]

6. video here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ekeI5Ol-Q&feature=user

[Virginia Dare]

9. From picture #11 at the link..

it doesn't look like there is anything left of Gilchrist Texas but 1 single house. Really amazing.

[LeftinOH]

13. Coffins are underground -usually in a concrete vault- how do they "pop up" to the surface?

[zabet]

16. Not all states/graveyards

require vaults. I know, my son works for the only vault company in the eastern part of the state here. Plus, depending on the amount of money that is spent, is the quality of vault you get, and the quality, good or not so good, bears into how long the vault will stayed sealed and waterproof.

[Jamastiene]

17. The answer is actually in the question.

Imagine an empty plastic soft drink bottle with the lid on it. Bury it in a container half filled with dirt, then flood the container. The bottle will move up and float in a short while after the container is flooded. The fact that there is air sealed into the coffins and vaults causes the buoyancy and they float up.

[fed_up_mother]

18. Some coffins are above ground in places like Galveston and New Orleans

The cities are so low, that you did two feet and hit water, so many folks are buried above ground.

[Arugula Latte]

14. Oh, gawd, why did I read some of those comments?

Racist morons ... :grr:

[tannybogus]

15. OK. What did I miss?? Racist?? nt

[tjwash]

19. WTF?

[tammywammy]

26. I heard someone on the radio today

He said the houses, like that one, that survived were built recently with the "updated" building codes. The other houses around it must have been older.

[GoneOffShore]

24. Yet another reason not to live on a flood plain.