Interesting link, ZG. Thanks for that.ZombieGranny wrote:The Middle Ages (plague years) body disposal -
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Based on the article it looks like people tried to bury their dead in mass graves, at least until the mortality rate grew so high that it became almost impossible to find people left that were able/willing to dispose of the dead. Seems reasonable that a similar pattern would emerge if such a thing happened today.
Concur with Shrapnel that not everybody is going to drop dead all at once in a big heap, even from an extremely virulent doomplague or other disaster. With modern earthmoving equipment and vehicles (and protective gear that would enable people to work around corpses with less fear of dying themselves), we as a society could keep up with even a fairly rapid die off. I don't think that a lone survivor would be confronted with tens of thousands of corpses stacked in the streets. If anything, I suspect that as the ability to deal with the mass graves was reduced then people would just end up being left in their houses where they died. A person dissolving or mummifying in their house is not a public health danger as far as I know.
SO, by the time society has broken down so much that we can no longer keep up with body disposal, it will be a moot point because A) the bulk of the die-offs will already have occurred and the bodies will have been disposed of, and B) the remaining bodies can be left in their homes/tombs with little risk of causing problems to all the ZS members who have survived to inherit the earth...
Man. That was easy!
