Cemeteries in YN

[Hatterleigh]

What are cemeteries like in YN? Does YN bury the dead? How does YN view the dead?

In Hatterleigh, cemeteries are not gloomy and dark. Funerals are held at cemeteries, but also weddings. Cemeteries are usually a place of tranquility and are sort of like parks. Hatterleigh generally buries the dead, and because cemeteries take up so much space people want to make use of them. Many cemeteries are teeming with plants and flowers and trees. Hatterlese people don't gloom about the dead, but rather celebrate their life.

[Fatatatutti]

We don't have cemeteries in Fatatatutti. The dead are buried and life goes on over the graves.

[Normund]

What are cemeteries like in YN?

The cemeteries in Normund are often considered dreary and unsightly places. Since the mid ‘50s, cemeteries have followed a consistent design and structure in accordance with laws made at the time. Cemeteries are large but compact, and have a grid-like pattern. Older, less important cemeteries have been turned over and reshaped to save space.
Normundic cemeteries have been compared very closely with Japanese ones.

Does YN bury the dead?

Since the early ‘70s, most people are now cremated and laid to rest in small and space-saving graves. The ashes are collected in handmade containers, and are buried underneath headstones with a spot for wreaths and other offerings.
The headstones of cemeteries most often include religious (particularly Christian) imagery or a bust of the deceased individual. New technologies are enabling more families to have the busts of persons added instead of imagery such as angels or crosses.

How does YN view the dead?

The dead in Normund aren’t subject to particularly views. Most of the time, the death of an individual is a saddening but inevitable thing, and so people remember the good deeds a person had committed or the memories they created.
Those whom did bad, committed heinous crimes and so on are treated with either indifference or distaste. The braves of some criminals have the symbol of chains or a broken weapon to signify their criminality in life. The broken weapon symbolises that they can no longer harm others, whilst the chains symbolise their time in prison.

[Mzeusia]

We do not bury the dead. The following has been copy and pasted from my factbook about religion. If you're interested in other aspects of my religion, click here.

The dead would be cremated, and the ashes would be carried by the dead person’s closest relative and placed at the edge of the forest where a seed would be planted on top and a tree could then grow from the ashes. The closest relation cuts their hair to be placed with the ashes. If the mother has died and the father lives, then the hair given by the father to the mother at marriage will be chosen. A thirty-day fast is observed for all but stillborn babies. Immediate relatives wear black for the length of the fast. Then the closest surviving relative will spend a day in the forest planted from the ashes of the dead, each major city has one. No prayers are said, and no items accompany the body as the person must be judged by the gods, fairly without prayer or wealth.

[Broader Confederate States]

Cemeteries do exist. War cemeteries are popular places to celebrate Independence Day and Memorial Day. Cremation also exists, and for sailors, burial-at-sea is popular. The dead who lived worthy lives are respected, but criminals are figuratively danced on. Rural countrymen who can't afford, prefer not to bury their dead in a cemetery, or were ordered to in the will often bury them in marked graves behind their homes.

[Lodana]

The dead here are usually cremated.

[Gandoor]

While the majority of dead in Gandoor are cremated, following our nation's funeral customs (which are a mixture between traditional indigenous customs and Japanese funeral customs), the urns containing one's remains are buried in a family grave in a cemetery.

[Valehart]

Cemeteries are considered inefficient in every way. Bodies are either recycled or dumped in a useless puppet state's world.

[Sopdet Bemusement World]

This entire planet is a cemetery and a future resting site for the still-living, that is the reason for the monumental architecture.

[Union of Sovereign States and Republics]

Cemeteries exist in the USSR, and one of the largest is in the village of Rossoshka. It is a cemetery, filled to the brim with the graves of Soviet soldiers killed in the Battle of Stalingrad; each with individual names and ages.

[Cosmopolitan borovan]

We bury the dead. We view this dead as respect but opinions vary in the population. Some think they should be celebrating, some think it should be serious, others don't think on it. Cemeteries are seen as serene, peaceful, and sincere contemplating. Most are conducted on burial plots but undertakers can have it at public places with permission if they hold significant value to that place.

[Thama]

While originally in the old Thaman Kingdom people cremated their dead and kept the bone ash in effigies and urns in private shrines at family homes, nowadays Nikopolians more often than not follow the customs of the old Northlands and bury their dead in forests. While originally this was done just in any random wood that was convenient, for the past several centuries there have been specially dedicated glades and forests tended for this purpose. The most notable one as well as the largest is the Oberon Greatwood - the world's largest cemetery - located on the western shore of Lag Oberon in the Northern territory.

These cemetery forests are often used as grounds for festivities honoring the dead such as on the day of the dead on the 32nd of December. Otherwise, they are simply left as nature besides the tending of the graves within. It is no stranger to take a leisurely hike in one of them on a Sunday afternoon than it is to go swimming in a lake or inviting your friends for tea.

A typical modern burial has not changed very much since this custom became widespread. Originally, the body would be wrapped in fabric which had been decorated by the family and friends of the deceased, and then after all goodbyes were said and rituals finished the body would be buried in a clearing in the woods and a sapling would be planted on top of it. A simple name plaque with a short tale of the deceased's life would be kept by the tree to mark who was buried there, and once the tree was large enough, the plaque would be affixed to it.
Nowadays, the only difference is that funerals take place in funeral homes where the deceased is on display for all to bid farewell and only the very closest people to the deceased wrap the body and go bury it the more traditional way.

Traditional Thaman cremation has stopped for the most part, as the people who do choose to be cremated instead nowadays have their ashes pressed into crystals, to be used as either family heirloom jewelry or set into shrines.

The custom of keeping shrines to your ancestors at your family home has remained, regardless of whether the dead are buried or cremated.

[Silver Commonwealth]

''Although cemeteries are still popular in the Commonwealth, especially new member states, cremation also is becoming popular, and ash from the dead are often used in farming as well.''

[Aldina]

The departed in Aldina are usually mummified and interred in crypts or burial vaults, rather than graveyards which are usually reserved for military field burials. In cases of cremation, the urn containing the remains is usually placed either in a suitably-sized niche in the aforesaid burial vaults, or kept in a suitable location in the next-of-kin's home such as a household shrine.

[Novus Niciae]

There are very few cemeteries in the republic that are still in active use, Firstly death itself is extremely rare and there is precious little that our medical science can't fix and we have mind uploading so accidental death is unknown, and soldiers routinely make backups of their consciousness so that they can be revived even if their body is irrecoverable. The few deaths that happen are usually done because a person feels like they have reached the natural end of their life for ideological or spiritual reasons, and other deaths are temporary where an artist will 'die' for several years to make an artistic or political statement or because they are curious about what the future may hold.

As a result of this, the disposal of remains is highly variable with the remains of those who have been uploaded into another body treated as medical waste and their cybernetics are recycled and their remaining biological material processed and used as fertilizer. The remains of those who deliberately die are buried, recycled, or incinerated, or left for the wildlife to consume with varying degrees of ceremony depending on the preferences of the departed.

[Vallermoore]

Most people are buried in deep graves with room for a hundred dead bodies per grave. Gravestones are of wood except one central stone one with the names of everyone buried in the cemetery. Cemeteries like this are kept away from water sources. Those who are executed are buried in coffins in the prison yard. Some, be they Hindus, sapient pegusai, those who fear burial or just hate the idea of rotting after death, or those few whose dead bodies would spread plagues such as the very rare Ebola virus, are cremated in ovens or on funeral pyres. Also some sailors are occasionally buried at sea. Rarely, someone is buried in their own back garden. Very rich people, small children who die, and murder victims are often buried in a single grave by themselves.

[Marcianus]

The dead here are usually cremated and have their ashes either buried, or are given to their families, depending on the permission of the family in question.

[Great Nortend]

The dead in Great Nortend are buried in graveyards and not cremated as a general rule. Bodies are limed, dressed and then wrapped in either a woollen or linen shroud before being placed in a wooden coffin lined with wool or silk, the latter options being reserved for the more wealthy. Graveyards are nearly always adjoining or connected to the parish church, and thus are often called churchyards. Graves are customarily dug up to 9 feet below the ground meaning a number of coffins may be placed in the same grave. It is traditional since the 17th century for husbands and wives to be buried together in the same plot, one above the other, which reduces space requirements.

A typical church graveyard is grassed with stone headstones and footstones dotted around. Headstones are generally in a rectangular, arched or rounded form with a carved inscription bearing names, dates and family members. Relief carvings of skulls, crosses or other motifs are also common for the more wealthy. A footstone is also generally erected, bearing initials, names, Biblical quotations or similar. The more wealthy will sometimes erect an iron railing around their grave plots, wherein multiple family members may be interred. Customarily, the lord of the manor and other noble figures are permitted to be buried in a private crypt or within the church itself.

The graveyard as a whole is a pleasant place usually, and it is often planted with flowers and shrubs such as roses, bluebells, carnations, daffodils, ivy and rosemary. Popular trees include the ever-present yew, the cyprus, the almond, the dogwood and the oak. Graves are often haphazardly spaced around, making navigation difficult in some cases. New graveyards have also opened to serve particularly large urban areas, such as Lendert and Limmes, where existing churchyards and nearing capacity. Such cemeteries are usually located a number of miles away and have a more garden-like feel.

[Hiachijan]

The dead are commonly recycled into soylent products to be sold offworld or used as compost.

[Zhouran]

In Zhouran, cremation is the most common form of funeral rite, however burial is the second most common. Cemeteries in Zhouran exist, especially military cemeteries.

[The Crane]

There are cemeteries but most people are cremated about 88% are cremated.

[Subhurbia]

Throughout Suhurbia, cemeteries are only for famous, or significant status individuals, like sovereigns, celebrities, etc.

[Toaslandia]

Graves? We have no need for graves as our people's bodies are used for medical purposes after they die.

[New Pyrrhius]

there is nothing left to hide from

[Hystaria]

They are burnt in the burning heart. The factbook tells more of this.