Viable question.
I have mentioned before regarding looters, do you really want to terminally shoot one (outside of the big question which is did I have to shoot them to begin with) but what do you do with a corpse after? I have thought about exactly what your thread topic is about.
I have no answers as to whether to bury or not to bury from a legal perspective. I guess one would be legally covered to shallow grave bury them, that is from a health point of view, not as a cover up (no pun intended) point of view.

Better to wound if possible and let them hobble off somewhere else to expire, ideally. I'm assuming you are talking about those that you may have killed, vs old grandmother that just happened to have expired of natural causes during some major event-where clearly no malice of any kind was involved.

Should be a good thread, let's hope more intellectual post appear vs the Rambo type post.

 

It seems like a waste of energy burying them as unless you are doing it deep, dogs and other animals are going to dig them up. I'd stack them up and burn them, hopefully that would help stop the spread of diseases and what's left over the birds can pick.

 

I agree, burn them but with used motor oil. No good gas or oil because it will be used for a better purpose. And animals will start to invade the urban areas. Especially dogs. Nothing is more vicious than a pack of hungry domesticated dogs. Even a pack of Arctic Wolves aren't as brutal as house dogs. I know this from experience with a pack that ran in the woods above our town years ago. They attacked my sister and ripped her leg apart and a dog trainer that is a friend of ours told us about their habits.

 

What other animals (this is the urban section)?

 

Foxes, bears (depending where you live) and such.

 

I was thinking "plastination" . You can then set them out as warnings to other looters. After order is restored, open a museum, charge admission, and go on vacation! TP

 

Foxes and bears in an urban area? What do you consider "urban" to mean? Just curious. I've been in a lot of different metropolitan areas in the United States and where sometimes a cab is hard to find, I've never seen bears and foxes roaming around.

 

Foxes roam the streets of London and I've seen news reports of bears looking for food in towns in the US.

 

ur·ban
adj \ˈər-bən\
Definition of URBAN
: of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city
Origin of URBAN
Latin urbanus, from urbs city

 

Well as relates to "towns" I'd still shallow grave them and take my chances, legally.

 

This thread is rather vague.
On the one hand we have legal issues mentioned, on the other hand we're saying that it is up to the living to make it. If we're talking the end of the world kind of thing then bury and bury well as legal concerns are out the window.
OP, please clarify.

 

bury or burn i guess, as far as animals go, you might find fox, coon, coyotes, and ferrel dogs. interesting question? more interesting than odd now that i have thought on it.

 

I'm going to hold off responding until the OP clarifies, this topic is way to vague for me.

 

Again, since I don't know the OP's intentions with this thread I can't respond really.
Short term until Law and Order is restored? I don't see all of these feral dogs, coyotes, raccoons, skunks nor possums, forgetting squirrels, mass descending on a shallow grave corpse when obviously there may be others unburied, exposed.

 

Since we have no clarification from the OP, I guess the depth of the grave would depend one wildlife in that area.
That I'm sure we can all agree on.
Vague thread.

 

I dunno you could get a grow your hair long, get a pathfinder and live on your trust fund while you follow them around the country though. Just sayin.

 

I say bury........thats what I would want....to be buried.

 

Burn. The critters will dig up the remains and you have the same health problems you always do with rotting meat. Cremation is a much cleaner process. Don't use up all your winter firewood doing this, though....

 

If there is a mass die off. I have always figured that somewhere around town would be a bull dozer, track hoe, or back hoe available. A few gallons of diesel and you can bury a LOT of people deep and permanent.
It may not be elegant or what people would want, but it's what will be needed. Hopefully we will have time to keep records of where and who are buried.
FYI: In London excavations they will find plague pits, where hundreds of bodies were buried.

 

There is evidence of a number bodies found in series of large gravesin PA that were created during a typhoid epidemic. This happened in the 19th century.

 

Depends on who, how, and why for what I do.

Some would end up ground up and fed to the dogs, others added to the garden, a few just buried, and a large portion burned.

As far as the bury because of animals, yeah, there are bears even here in Bellevue. They had one strolling around downtown Redmond a few months ago.

 

In the event of SHTF, I'd bury as deep as I could to prevent disease. I'd make some type of marker or map locating where the body was buried. I's write some type of journal entry or some type of documentation with as much information about how they died, when they died and what ever I could to protect myself. Date the entry. Later, if order was restored and officials came looking, you would have documentation to use from the time of the incident to "protect" yourself.

The closer to your initial involvement in burying the corpse you write it down, the more reliable it will be. Especially if you were in some way responsible for the death. I'd keep my documentation to myself and not share it with the powers that be until I had to.

If some later time Goober and Cooter down the road try to claim something from memory and you can produce written documentation from the time of the event, you would look much better. Especially if you listed witnesses, things the dead guy said and did, things you tried to do to difuse the event, etc. More details the better.


One other option;

I couldn't resist

 

I live in a a small town. Most of my neighbors have several acres. I will be burring deep with my back hoe.

 

Its a serious subject:

http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PED/DeadBodiesFieldManual.htm

 

If anyone wants to dl this in pdf.

Management of Dead Bodies After Disasters

 

Bury the dead or burn them (cremate) them. I guess you could go modern and use a wood chipper to chip them into small pieces in an emergency but that seems so tacky. I guess any of those 3 ways would get the job done to keep disease from spreading or something. You've got to keep in mind that you may NOT have many options available to you after trouble hits. Do the best you can with what you have. Try to give as many as possible a decent burial and try to mark their graves when you can. Trouble is that sooner or later you may not have any options left so you do what you can for your fellow humans.

 

I stressed basically the same thing in an earlier reply to this thread brother. Your reply here as well cannot be over emphasized.:thumb:

 

Throw em on the grill and eat the evidence! If food is in short supply why waste good meat. :thumb: They dont call it long pork for nothin. :

 

according to a medical examiner buddy of mine who actually performed autopsy's after Katrina, wrap them in a plastic shower curtain / duct tape, bury them if possible in a marked shallow grave.

If law and order ever do come back they will send people out to document the deaths and hopefully get the info for next of kin.

 

You're not sick, you're just trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist at the moment. Right now I'm busy stockpiling antibiotics, canned food, water filters, etc. Also taking money out of the IRA and the bank. I'll deal with the dead (of which I may be one, thus avoiding the problem) when it comes.

 

Worry is interest I am paying on a debt I haven't contracted yet.... Thanks for the ray of sunshine....

 

I haven't really decided what I would do with them.Its something that I will have to think about.