San Francisco National Cemetery spends $15MM to 'permanently' level 28k headstones

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This seems like a problem that could be solved by standardized, rackmount, ā€˜mortuary modulesā€™. 4, maybe 5 U high, 19 inches wide, slides nice and neat into a four-post rack with a KVM-style fold-up bit for the headstone inscription.

Highly compact, extremely efficient, seismically stable with suitable mounting, whatā€™s not to like?

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I read the headline as level = destroy ā€“ glad that I was wrong.

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Why canā€™t we just have a great big field where you can drop us in a hole and plant a tree in it?
I read once about a ā€˜forest of the deadā€™ in Germany.
Now thatā€™s a final solution.

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As long as my tree can be equipped with an operational cannon and a live twitter feed broadcast, Iā€™m in!

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English graveyards are allowed to decompose naturally, and people have picnics in them, and contemplate their eventual ascent to a higher trophic level.

For example the Southampton graveyard.

In America we seem to have a problem with the idea of ā€œletting goā€ā€¦

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Thatā€™s what I thought too. ā€œStabilizeā€ might be a better term.

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Then it worked. You were clickbaited by rule #1: the Double-Entendre

(& so was I. I thought, "WHAT?? THATā€™S SO WRONG! Oh. Duh.)

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Tree Root That Ate Roger Williams, Providence, Rhode Island

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