I think the corpse acceptability must also account for whether the person expects a corpse to be present.
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dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 5 months agoHow does graveyards fit into the equation? You could knowingly be just a few meters away from rows of corpses, but not really care.
Does the dirt provide insulation?
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Donkter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well you can’t walk down ol’ one-corpse alley and not expect a corpse there.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
But if there’re two corpses there then HELL NO!
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
People are often uncomfortable in graveyards and, for example, would not want to walk through one at night when they would be willing to walk through a field.
The dirt does provide a sort of insulation however, as people would be more willing to walk through a graveyard than through a house that had the same density of corpses in the basement. It’s the theoretical accessibility to the corpse that plays a factor here.
oo1@lemmings.world 5 months ago
Ah, so the corpse acceptability depends on the coefficient of corpse-permeability of the intermediate space as well as the distance.
Lead lined coffins are safer than wooden ones. This might also explain the thick metal doors you always see in morgues on tv.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I think it would depend more on how easy it is to open the coffin. If the lead lined coffin has well maintained hinges that allow it to open with little effort, that’s less acceptable than a wooden coffin that is nailed shut.
Corpse acceptability is inversely proportional to corpse accessibility.
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I’ve never felt any feeling about being at a cemetery. I performed hundreds of funeral services and it never came up with any of us doing them and we talked about so much shit being stuck together for over a year more or less with exception to a few rotations. I’m unreasonably curious how common/uncommon to feel uncomfortable in graveyards now.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Nobody panics when things go “according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell you that, like, you’ll walk through a graveyard, or a morgue, nobody panics, because it’s all “part of the plan”. But when I bring ONE corpse to a job interview, well then everyone loses their minds!