Timeline for On a generation ship, how to handle the dead?
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| Aug 28, 2016 at 7:51 | answer | added | Hugoagogo | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 13:41 | answer | added | Scott Downey | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 16:17 | comment | added | dsollen | I love not just that we have an Alpha Centuri reference, but how many up votes it got. Perhaps that great game is still remembered by others? :) in any case it's the correct answer, yummie human hamburgers for all! | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 23:50 | answer | added | Guill | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 19:55 | vote | accept | celtschk | ||
| Mar 10, 2015 at 19:47 | comment | added | Blorgbeard | In Dune's Fremen (desert people) culture, a person's water belongs to the tribe, and it's ceremonially extracted from them after death. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 6:55 | answer | added | Shokhet | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 1:08 | answer | added | edthethird | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 20:54 | answer | added | superluminary | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 17:17 | comment | added | user3334690 | as an added benefit purposeful decomposition of the bodies prevents them from being repurposed for something else... like the rise of the cybermen | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 13:49 | answer | added | Agent_L | timeline score: 10 | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 13:30 | answer | added | mccdyl001 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 13:26 | answer | added | The Spooniest | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 11:30 | comment | added | Zommuter | ♲ | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 10:33 | answer | added | Søren D. Ptæus | timeline score: 12 | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 4:06 | comment | added | Neil Kirk | @SerbanTanasa I JUST got that!! I've heard it so many times during my life, but never really understood what it meant. Until now. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 2:34 | answer | added | Tom J Nowell | timeline score: 23 | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 2:22 | answer | added | user3082 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 22:09 | comment | added | Vi. | Just redefine "dignity" to make the most useful and effective corpse recycling to be the most dignified handling. Wasting any part of the corpse == undignified. | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 20:30 | comment | added | Jordan | Didn't you read the contract your great-grandfather signed when he got on this ship? | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 18:09 | answer | added | Ville Niemi | timeline score: 18 | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 17:49 | comment | added | AJMansfield | They would eat them. Except in a more dignified sort of way. | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 16:52 | answer | added | ShadSterling | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 16:16 | comment | added | David Richerby | To emphasize the point @MichaelKjörling makes, the concept of "dignified" treatment for the dead is very much dependent on the specific culture you're talking about. For example, in the west, cremation is something that has only become acceptable recently (it was even illegal in Greece until 2006). Various cultures have decorated the deceased's skull and worn it as a charm at their funeral. In the Himalayas, they leave the body outside to be eaten by vultures. | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 14:30 | comment | added | Tony Ennis | There is no option except for full recycling. | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 14:16 | comment | added | user | "Dignity" is a human concept, and rather specific to each society at that. Would a "dignified handling of the dead" mean the same thing as it does in a Western human culture on Earth? Is it reasonable to expect standards to remain the same throughout the journey? | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 11:56 | comment | added | user3652621 | It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people. | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 10:44 | answer | added | ArtOfCode | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 8:14 | answer | added | RoboKaren | timeline score: 50 | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 8:09 | history | asked | celtschk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |