Choice of Death into Afterlife

[Dog of the Sun]

When the person dies instead of going to the mortuary, how about giving YOU OR THE AI how they want to be put into the earth. Cremation, a body bag [just an idea], a casket, catacomb or just a pit in the ground and so on and so on...
What do you think bout that? :)

[Kiya]

Good idea! Whatever there was in Rome back in those days.

Could be two different types of burial depending who you were, patrician or not. Definitely for ordinary people also some sort of burial ground. If you as governosr don't supply that (like water and food, entertainment and so on), people might get ill or restless, leave your city...

[EmperorJay]

Well, I don't think Romans really had a choice about that. From my knowledge it was forbidden to be buried within the city walls (with a few exceptions for an emperor or two) and besides that, a dead person would be cremated. That was just what they did.

[Kiya]

From my knowledge it was forbidden to be buried within the city walls (with a few exceptions for an emperor or two) and besides that, a dead person would be cremated. That was just what they did.

Crematorium it is then. That'll be fine.

[Dog of the Sun]

What about farmers in the middle of nowhere?

[EmperorJay]

I believe that they too would be cremated. The family would gather wood for the funeral pyre (or stake, not sure what it's called) and the farmers ashes would be collected in a urn and that would be buried or placed in a very little monument, for the poor these were not much bigger than the urn itself.

Also, keep in mind that the wealthy would own most of the land, very few farmers lived somewhere without any social contacts.

[Thucydides]

Over time, in part due to the spread of Christianity, the practice in the Middle East of burying one's dead spread across the Roman Empire, largely displacing the early Roman practice of cremation.

[dreamsoftwilight]

cremation is a much healthier version... it also prevents zombies from being created. hehe

[wodinoneeye]

Well, I don't think Romans really had a choice about that. From my knowledge it was forbidden to be buried within the city walls (with a few exceptions for an emperor or two) and besides that, a dead person would be cremated. That was just what they did.


Except for the slaves (and indigent poor) who were thrown into a pit outside town.

The ashes were still put into tombs which lined the roads outside town (built buy the families).

[Phil Walker]

One thing missed. As in feeding the lions :D !!! Not always were the lions fed a "healthy" diet, so I'm sure some of the past made nice "appetizers" :rolleyes: !!!


Sincerely,
Phil