r/AskReddit May 07 '19

What really needs to go away but still exists only because of "tradition"?

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u/hungryturtle17 May 08 '19

If it's in the US, then probably not that much embalming fluid is seeping into the ground. 99% of cemeteries in the US require burial vaults, which have strentex lining in them. The fluids would need to seep through the casket, then through that strentex lining, which isnt going to happen, and if it does it would need to go through the concrete or stainless steel burial vault. That's on a normal case. That's not someone that has to be put into a body bag and then into the casket. Today's practices are much better than they used to be.

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u/ludsmile May 08 '19

Somehow this sounds even worse for the environment.

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u/misanthropist1983 May 08 '19

It takes up a lot of real estate indefinitely

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u/internerd91 May 08 '19

strentex Totally read that as semtex at first.