Will humans have necropolis planets in the future?

Why would we build such a city? Why would we need so much cheap labor in such a spacefaring future?

Why would population growth be high enough to justify that type of project?
 
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Yes. They'd be called Brethren Moons and they'd create undead aliens to spread it to other worlds.
 
Wendy_Carter said:
As people keep dying and being put to rest under the ground, the space that graveyards occupy on Earth will expand ever more. While cremation is a thing, burial in a coffin is an old and still popular tradition that is very unlikely to become obsolete any time soon. And so a thought appeared in my mind - what if Earth of the future will just be a gigantic necropolis, where people no longer live, but rather are buried as a centuries-lasting tradition? Derelict and abandoned due to complete exhaustion of Earth's resources, or maybe deliberately remade into a giant graveyard, as we already have a lot of them on Earth, so that people who wish to partake in an ancient tradition go to Earth, while the rest of humanity uses some other method of funeral that doesn't leave a body to bury to preserve land space for building construction.

There is also a possibility that maybe humanity will turn planets that aren't Earth into these necropolis planets. Take a completely unpopulated planet that is absolutely resourceless and contains unbreatheable gas and make it into something that serves a purpose. Doesn't have to be a planet in Solar system, it can be some planet far away in the very distant future of 52 century.

What are your thoughts on this? Will we have planets dedicated for burial rites in the future or will humanity keep burying their dead on the very planet they live in? Or will they even keep the tradition going far, far into the future and just use cremation instead? I'm quite curious on what you think of this.
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I think that if you do the maths you would find out that the past, present and future population would take up a tiny portion of earth.
 
Gorillagorillagorilla said:
I say make graveyard parks. People get broken down into the ecosystem while preserving nature. That or just do what the Tibetans do and feed our dead to vultures and condors
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Yeah I vote this is cannibalism is off the table.

Honestly if it doesnt conflict with organ donation for whatever reason im probably gonna have my body donated to a body farm of some kind so that every last piece of my semen drenched corpse is of use to the world in some way
 
Honestly aside from being launched into sun or burned outright. I think what will happen is there maybe a new tradition born for humanity that has existed along the stars at that point where how you choose to be laid to rest is more novel.

Say humanity experiences a renaissance that emphasis being together for eternity. In such a situation we might see people get burned and their ash compressed into a diamond made of ash from countless generations past. In such situations the term "family heirloom" might get a new interpretation.
 
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If faster-than-light space travel becomes possible, maybe we can stop the aging process too.
 
You can't keep sending human corpses to other planets, otherwise after an outrageous amount of time we'll have no earth left to make more people!

This isn't a real issue, individual gravesites in perpetuity are a weird american thing that we'll probably have to give up on eventually, but this issue mostly takes care of itself via decomposition.
 
The Manglement said:
Unless some seriously wacky, physics breaking technology gets developed, travel to even our closest planetary neighbors will be exceedingly expensive. Sure some rich assholes will be buried on Mars, but ordinary people aren't going to pay on the order of $40k to launch a corpse to Mars, and that's not including the facilities that would be needed on Mars to do basic upkeep on the cemetery and inter the new bodies. A 'cheap' mars base would cost on the order of a hundreds of billions of dollars.
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The world GDP is over 75 trillion dollars, and if there really was a need for travel to Mars, the economics of scale would kick in with mass production of the rockets needed. Or we just get a launch loop or orbital ring.

But fuck Mars, if we dismantle the entire planet piece by piece and turn it into O'Neill cylinders, like the opposite of how Egyptians built the Pyramids (assuming aliens didn't teach them/they didn't have hyper-powerful Wakandan tech before the Yakubians came), then we'd have thousands of times more living space than if we just lived there. Then we can fill those up with graveyards.
 
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