The Most Humiliating Burial Method

livescience ^ | 23 June 2009

[JoeProBono]

There are a lot of ways to dispose of humans when they die. There's the whole mummy thing, which is relatively mundane compared to some of the weird ways on our Top 10 list (including burials in trees, on ships and the latest fad: plastination and display). Meanwhile, green deaths are on the rise. But this may be the most humiliating: Face down burial.

Apparently the custom has been used in many societies in history to disrespect or humiliate the dead, a new study finds. It's been used on criminals, war prisoners and simply those lacking social status, researchers concluded.

[JoeProBono]

Facedown Burials Widely Used to Humiliate the Dead

[jessduntno]

Then there is the preferred method for burying Islamic terrorists...face down and WRAPPED IN BACON...

[WayneS]

I like the idea of being cremated and shot out of a cannon.

I do not know who first thought of it, but I read that it was the way Hunter S. Thompson wanted his body to be disposed of, and I thought the idea had merit.

[svcw]

My husband always tells me to wrap in a grass map and bury him on our property. I always reply I am not wasting money on a grass mat.

[2banana]

So they can see where they are going?

[SouthTexas]

I thought you were buried face down so the rest of the world could kiss your @ss.

[WayneS]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Bacon-wrapped terrorist...

[jessduntno]

“So they can see where they are going?”

Exactly...

[jessduntno]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. Bacon-wrapped terrorist...

Yep...they get to hell and they will be all kinds of tasty crispy critters...

[Star Traveler]

You said — Bacon-wrapped terrorist...

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Then feed them to the pigs... :-)

[irishtenor]

m, I really don’t think the dead care what position the body is. As that great philosopher once said, “He’s dead, Jim.”

[DannyTN]

I think it would be more humiliating to be sumitting papers to a science journal and all you have to offer is an opinion on what dead people feel about how they were buried.

[astyanax]

Personally, I think it would be rather difficult to humiliate someone who is dead.
Why (and how) would they care?!

[3niner]

How about composting?

[sunmars]

It was superstition mostly, anyone suspecting of becoming a vampire was buried face down, so when they awoke they would dig downwards instead of up to get out.

[Travis T. OJustice]

IIRC, his ashes were incorporated into fireworks, and that’s what i want done when it’s my time.

[ReneeLynn]

Okay, what the heck is a ‘green’ death?

[JoeProBono]

"Okay, what the heck is a ‘green’ death?"

[jessduntno]

Okay, what the heck is a ‘green’ death?

A bottle of Haffenreffer Private Stock...

[20yearvet]

And when my days are over
And from this world I pass
berry me upside down
and let the whole world kiss my ___