It just seems Jewish and the fact they forbid it has me torn. On one hand they should want to do it so they can please the devil, on the other they get us to desecrate the corpse of our loved ones.
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Frozen ground is another good reason for cremation, Scandinavian countries have plenty of space, more so than the US relative to population, but that doesn't matter when the ground is frozen and you can't dig a hole most of the year.
Swamps and flooding does seem like a good reason to cremate too, not that it's much of a problem up here. But it is a bit concerning watching certain areas prone to flooding, were coffins float up from the ground and slide away in a mudslide. Seems like the very opposite to rest in peace.
Everything you said is very true. Could be another reason that cremation took off so well in the UK, lots of rain and flash floods that could very well have dug up caskets.
The pollution and massive population boom of the industrial revolution caught the unplanned Europe completely by surprise. There was virtually no infrastructure to deal with pollution and the population boom, and no space to deal with the corpses of people frequently dying from the problems brought by it. Paris and London were hit the worst because of high population density and being at the forefront of it. Germany was somewhat intermediate. Low pop density countries like Spain, Russia, and the US were the least swathed but if you lived in Madrid, Moscow, or New York or something you were still dealing with smog, TB, and piles of horse shit everywhere.
The London sewer system was none other than a work of absolute genius and was a (very literal) lifesaver for the city and the river Thames. Another contribution to sanitation was the Model T car, which made it so that there wasn't horse shit everywhere you went, that was a huge one. And among these, cremation was a big contributor to sanitation and public health as well, because you didn't have corpses in rivers in the middle of cities and overflowing burial plots with bodies cruising downtown at the slightest flash flood, or bodies leaking fluids and embalming liquid into groundwater. Decomposing bodies are very bad for public health, needless to say.
Swamps and flooding does seem like a good reason to cremate too, not that it's much of a problem up here. But it is a bit concerning watching certain areas prone to flooding, were coffins float up from the ground and slide away in a mudslide. Seems like the very opposite to rest in peace.
The London sewer system was none other than a work of absolute genius and was a (very literal) lifesaver for the city and the river Thames. Another contribution to sanitation was the Model T car, which made it so that there wasn't horse shit everywhere you went, that was a huge one. And among these, cremation was a big contributor to sanitation and public health as well, because you didn't have corpses in rivers in the middle of cities and overflowing burial plots with bodies cruising downtown at the slightest flash flood, or bodies leaking fluids and embalming liquid into groundwater. Decomposing bodies are very bad for public health, needless to say.