Mayor West was right all along...
Cement was definitely in order here.
shareLOL - good observation.
Caskets *are* encased in concrete vaults - I really apologize for being a stick-in-the-mud, but since those things can cost more than the casket, anyone who's buried anyone knows about them. Ostensibly, they are for keeping water out and keeping the cemetery soil level, because the weight of the dirt would crush any casket. But I've always suspected they are *really* to keep the dead from getting out of those flimsy caskets!
So essentially, cemeteries have been kinda going along with Mayor West all along. He *is* a visionary!
Cremation is the only way to stop the zombie apocalypse. Just for good measure, that's what my family has started doing.
and that has nothing to do with the cost of burying the dead?
I personally also don't like the idea of taking up space when I am dead, assuming future folk won't move the tomb stones and leave the bodies a la Poltergeist.
Worse case scenario, I burst out of my grave site ready to eat my grand children.
Best case scenario, my descendants can hang out at my grave site talking to me as if I'm not friggin dead and gone.
So I'd prefer my loved ones dump my ashes over a water fall or something else that they can enjoy. I don't hope that they visit my "resting place" and pretend that I can hear them. If I can, then they should shoot me in the head before I bite them.
Life is for the living.
As an atheist who doesn't believe in the supernatural my preferred method of burial is cryogenic stasis. Who knows maybe in the future they'll get smart enough and at the same time stupid enough to think reanimating me might be a good idea.
Of course this could be made perfectly safe against a zombie outbreak (and cheaper too) by just storing my head.
While watching this movie, I couldn't help but notice the emphasis they placed on both Zac and Beth's families being Jewish. Your comment made me realize why they made this detail so abundantly clear. Jewish burials don't use concrete vaults, or burial vaults of any kind. The casket is placed and filled in with every bit of dirt that was dug from the grave, making a mound that settles as the casket and body decompose, leaving level ground and no need to haul away the left over dirt. They take ashes to ashes, dust to dust, literally. It stands to reason, when the dead rise from their graves, the vast majority of zombies walking the Earth will be Jews while the well preserved Christian zombies will spend an eternity in their dry, concrete vaults 6 feet under. Kinda makes ya re-think the benefits of a traditional burial.
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