• Atrichum@lemmy.world
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    Sometimes it feels like playing up how everything is sacred for native Americans actually infantaliszes them and gives the American government a pass on the truly horrific wrongs committed against native Americans.

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      They literally say the entire world is sacred.

      And the Native Americans I heard describing this weren’t jerks about it.

      It seems to me that there is a lot of white knighting on this topic.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      They dont, but the living very much do. My grandfather doesn’t care if you piss on his corpse, but I will be more than a little upset.

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    Possible unpopular opinion: I wouldn’t be upset if they dug up Arlington National Cemetery.

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    Weird that we hoard human corpses. I told my wife I want to be tossed in the ocean to be eaten by all the animals, or give me a sky funeral where you’re eaten by birds

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      I want to be buried in a forest without coffin or decor.

      May the trees, other plants and fungi feast on my nutrients.

      After all the ecological destruction i caused simply by being a member of society it feels like the least i CANT DO because it would be ILLEGAL.

      There are few limited options.

      All of them cost a fortune and most of that money is for stuff i do not care about. A box or urn, some person i never met that gives a speech.

      Just put me in the ground and remember me, nothing else, please.

      But to revert to the context of the meme.

      I the dead person who gave my nutrients to the forest would be very upset if i knew they destroyed it. Graveyard on the other hand go ahead, build a neighborhood park instead.

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      Alternately, don’t dig them up, but plant acres of native plants all over them and let it run wild.

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        I would like my body to be buried without any chemical treatment and an oak or aspen (depending on where I am buried) be planted right over me so that the tree can feed off of my corpse. Sadly, that’s illegal in most places.

  • Mango@lemmy.world
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    The double standard is called a power move. Bring sacred isn’t what matters. Being what the current power system decides is right is what matters. Sucks though.