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If You Do Not Have a Headstone How
Will Anyone Find You?
By Corinne Bridgewater
Going to graveyards and looking at the inscriptions on
the tombstones has always been a tool that was used in
genealogy research. However now due to the computer age
we are able to research information about the tombstones
online. There is even a way nowadays using digital
technology to attach to the headstone a storage device
with any information about the person the family wanted
to save.
On the other hand there is a trend for, going green.
People who are eco savvy want low impact to the
environment natural burial places. This means no longer
will there be put up any headstone in a cemetery that
will last for future generations. This means that if
this trend truly develops a following then future family
historians will find it hard to find this information.
What happens then when the eco natural plot goes back to
earth, will family historians of the future have any of
the graveyard information available to them? Headstones
are valuable resources for historians and if they are no
longer there then what?
There is a push it seems for alternative burial passages
and none seem to care about saving the history of the
person being buried, this could have a great impact on
genealogy research of the future.
Of course some of it is not so new; there has always
been the burial at sea and the tossing of ashes over a
mountain range or favorite place of the deceased person.
Either of these ways leaves no marker on land.
Two traditional ways to dispose of human remains that
keep genealogical information intact:
Has a headstone: Bury in a cemetery, in the ground or a
wall
Has a headstone: Cremate and bury in a cemetery
Alternative ways to dispose of human remains that do not
keep genealogical information intact:
Does not have a headstone: Go green, bury in a preserve
with no headstone or marker
Does not have a headstone - Become a reef in the ocean.
For a small fee a company will take your cremated
remains and mold them into a reef, lower it into the sea
for animals to make their own in.
Does not have a headstone - Become part of a diamond.
They will take your carbon and create a fake diamond.
Does not have a headstone - Become part of a picture.
Add you to paint and put you on canvas
Does not have a headstone: Go into space for a huge fee
Does not have a headstone: Get made into a pencil
Does not have a headstone: Get made into fireworks
Yes all these ways are available if you just look
around, but the point is that you will not have a plaque
or marker to be remembered by and when those people that
were there at the time pass on to their place then what
happens to all the information about when you died and
where? |
