Is burial more terrifying? Buried for January, the truth revealed.
In traditional Chinese beliefs, burial is considered the perfect courtesy for the deceased, as it preserves the integrity of the body. However, with the continuous development and change of society, China has gradually changed burial to cremation.
Cremation will not damage the ecological environment, but also save a lot of land resources. Although cremation seems to many people to be more terrifying because the body needs to be burned, it is actually the burial that is truly terrifying.
What happens a month after the body is buried?
Burial or cremation, which is more chilling? When a person dies due to illness or accident, the first three hours, the muscles of the whole body relax, the pupils dilate, cardiac arrest, and the blood flows still and no longer provides energy.
If the blood is no longer circulating, the body temperature will drop by 1 per hour5 degrees. People who are overweight before birth have a slower rate of body temperature drop due to excess body fat.
At this moment in life, although the body cannot move, the consciousness of the deceased is still awake. They can sense the crying of their loved ones, the voices of doctors judging life and death, and scientists have also surveyed people who are dying, and they say that in the process of dying, the brain does not stop thinking, they know that they are dead, but they can still hear outside sounds and understand the changes around them.
Although the body is bound by death, the soul remains free.
Assuming that a person is able to perceive the external environment after death, then burial is undoubtedly a great fear and pain for him. When a loved one dresses him in a shroud and then places him in a wooden coffin, if burial is chosen, the deceased is buried in the earth on the day of death.
Well, over time, his body will go through different changes.
The temperature environment in the underground has a non-negligible impact on the body of the deceased. Once the temperature is suitable for changes within the body, the bacteria quickly break down, the harmful gases continue to increase, and the corpse swells, giving off a disgusting rancid smell.
Three or four N95 masks are also difficult to resist the smell. After about three or four days, the flesh continued to rot, and maggots and other microorganisms grew. The internal organs and nerve tissue gradually break down into blood and water.
However, in the state of burial, the smell of highly rotting stinky meat is simply imperceptible.
Therefore, the need for burial is particularly acute in many remote rural areas, because the longer the deceased is buried, the more likely it is to emit the smell of rotting corpses. Although cremation makes the deceased perceive the changes in the surrounding environment and feel fear at the moment of death compared to burial, the process of cremation is very short, and the internal organs have already broken down before the body decomposes, and the pain in the process seems to be less than that of burial.
In China, considering the limited nature of land resources, we have introduced a cremation system to reduce the waste of land. While burials still exist in some places, they tend to take up a lot of valuable arable land.
Therefore, not only will the measures related to returning farmland to forests further reduce the area of cultivated land, but burial will also cause farmers to lose more arable land.
In primitive societies, the custom of burial has appeared, and the burial method was popularized in the Xia and Shang periods. However, in the traditional thinking of many remote areas, there is still the concept of "burial for peace", and the obsession with this concept has led to burials occupying a large amount of land.
In order to symbolize the rest of the deceased, family members will continue to increase the scope of burial, but this practice also exacerbates the waste of land resources. In addition, the burial method will also consume a lot of human and material resources, such as digging a pit requires a lot of manpower, and the wooden coffin purchased is also a waste of resources, because the market formed by demand will also consume forest resources, and a large number of forest destruction is also caused by man-made.
In addition to the common burial and cremation, there is another unique burial method - ice burial. Ice burial is a type of burial in which a body is placed in a special freezing device, frozen at a low temperature of 200 degrees with liquid nitrogen, to reshape the human body into powdered ashes, and then put it into a biodegradable bag and buried in a shallow grave.
However, compared to cremation, ice burial has a higher **, so it is not easily accepted by the general public.
Let life return to nature, tree burial is a new type of environmentally friendly funeral method. It buries the ashes under the roots of the tree, allowing the tree to absorb the ashes, and the person and the tree become one and return to nature.
Tree burial not only satisfies people's traditional concept of being buried in the earth, but also protects the environment. However, it also has some limitations, such as the inability to erect monuments and the need for land provided by the state free of charge.
Often, tree burials are combined with forest parks in cities, such as clearing wasteland on the edge of the city to implement tree burials, which are both economical and environmentally friendly.
There are some drawbacks to traditional burial and cremation, but I believe that with the progress of society and the renewal of people's concepts, we will see more and more environmentally friendly funeral methods being introduced into China.
We need to get rid of old ideas, because protecting the environment is the most important thing. We choose an environmentally friendly funeral method to show respect not only for the deceased, but also for the protection of the natural environment.
No matter which funeral method can better protect the ecological environment, we should choose it, which is the greatest comfort to the deceased.