I think what happens to the dead is kinda important. If you Bury the dead you also need to fuel the excavator somehow. No one’s digging a grave by hand.
Maybe driving a car when riding a bicycle could do the trick isn’t the best use.
Last week Thursday I took the bike to work. 10 km. No big deal, it’s an E-Bike and it takes me 25 minutes. I’ve never seen so many cars on the road and I thought these people couldn’t afford fuel? This is in a small city of 90k people by the way. Anyone who lives in this city can take a bicycle and would have to travel less than I do, no matter where they are. I literally come from outside the city.
You can dig a grave by hand lmao, unless you live in America or another similar country where people are physically unable to. Judging by your use of km I’m assuming it’s not the US in particular though
Not that they have much work these days, everyone’s going for cremation and then bury a small urn, so the grave doesn’t take much time to dig. But till now, yes, graves have been dug by humans. Letting noisy and polluting excavators into a graveyard, which is supposed to be a place of quiet contemplation and respect for the dead, would be preposterous. Why even dig a grave if not out of respect for the dead, and what kind of respect are you showing by having a machine do it all in 5 minutes?
I’ve dug one myself, for most we’ve used a professional gravedigger’s service though.
We’ll see how long it takes
Usually it’s not really done for efficiency. It’s not particularly efficient to have a bunch of people sit around for a wake either, if they could all be at work instead. It’s all a ritual essentially.
Anyway, you can have it done in a day if you’re not a professional. You can also take turns with another family member so one could rest while the other is working. Hell, do it in a group of 3-4 and you can share stories about the deceased. Like I said, it’s a ritual. Doing it alone would be quite miserable of course.
I think what happens to the dead is kinda important. If you Bury the dead you also need to fuel the excavator somehow. No one’s digging a grave by hand.
Maybe driving a car when riding a bicycle could do the trick isn’t the best use. Last week Thursday I took the bike to work. 10 km. No big deal, it’s an E-Bike and it takes me 25 minutes. I’ve never seen so many cars on the road and I thought these people couldn’t afford fuel? This is in a small city of 90k people by the way. Anyone who lives in this city can take a bicycle and would have to travel less than I do, no matter where they are. I literally come from outside the city.
Buddhists cremate, they don’t bury people in coffins.
They don’t have to use diesel, but anything other than cremation isn’t really an option in this situation
You can dig a grave by hand lmao, unless you live in America or another similar country where people are physically unable to. Judging by your use of km I’m assuming it’s not the US in particular though
Sure bruv, you go dig a grave by hand. We’ll see how long it takes. It’s possible, sure. But sensible? Not so much.
That’s literally what gravediggers do though?
Not that they have much work these days, everyone’s going for cremation and then bury a small urn, so the grave doesn’t take much time to dig. But till now, yes, graves have been dug by humans. Letting noisy and polluting excavators into a graveyard, which is supposed to be a place of quiet contemplation and respect for the dead, would be preposterous. Why even dig a grave if not out of respect for the dead, and what kind of respect are you showing by having a machine do it all in 5 minutes?
Here’s a 14 year old article about the gravedigging profession and how they have less work nowadays
Here’s an 8 year old article about an 83 year old gravedigger. If he could still do it, so could anyone (except for people with actual disabilities of course).
Both in Estonian, but you can translate it.
I’ve dug one myself, for most we’ve used a professional gravedigger’s service though.
Usually it’s not really done for efficiency. It’s not particularly efficient to have a bunch of people sit around for a wake either, if they could all be at work instead. It’s all a ritual essentially.
Anyway, you can have it done in a day if you’re not a professional. You can also take turns with another family member so one could rest while the other is working. Hell, do it in a group of 3-4 and you can share stories about the deceased. Like I said, it’s a ritual. Doing it alone would be quite miserable of course.