Burial of Dead

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:25 am

How does the UFP dispose of their dead? We see Ira Graves get beamed out in a torpedo, but I can't imagine this is standard practice. Are there burials or do we think they're dematerialized back into matter stores? That'd be interesting knowing you were eating reclaimed persons =)

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:27 am

"Soylent Green is..."

"We know, we know. Ensign Ricky."

Fixed your thread title, BTW.

Lazar · Post by **Lazar** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:34 am

Bryan Moore wrote:How does the UFP dispose of their dead?

You mean Starfleet? I imagine it would be similar to current naval practice - you could decide beforehand whether you wanted to be buried in space (i.e. shot out the torpedo tube) or have your remains returned to your homeworld. For civilians on Federation planets, there's probably a diverse range of practices as there is today on Earth. I can't imagine that there would be a single Federation policy.

Post by **Mikey** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:30 am

Spock's funeral certainly seemed to be a matter of existing protocol, and it sure wasn't a traditional Vulcan ceremony - I don't think a bagpiper playing "Amazing Grace" is typical on Vulcan.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:32 am

Mikey wrote:Spock's funeral certainly seemed to be a matter of existing protocol, and it sure wasn't a traditional Vulcan ceremony - I don't think a bagpiper playing "Amazing Grace" is typical on Vulcan.

Well, they have black Vulcans; why not Scottish ones?

Post by **Mikey** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:36 am

Because the UFP doesn't have money to not spend.

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:44 am

I'd asked to be strapped to the very front of the ship =)

Post by **Teaos** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 10:53 am

Half naked with a trident?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:32 pm

In Sub Rosa we see a graveyard.

Presumably the "fired out in a torpedo" thing is just standard Starfleet practice.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:38 pm

Rochey wrote:...Presumably the "fired out in a torpedo" thing is just standard Starfleet practice.

I would just want to be cremated first. Don't want to come back as a Kobali... I hated those necro-freaks, personally.

RK_Striker_JK_5 · Post by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 5:18 pm

Don't they transport the bodies home in 'The Ship', the episode where they find the crashed Jem'Hadar ship?

Post by **Mikey** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 6:03 pm

I'd want a Viking funeral - burned in a ship in space.

I'd always leave it in my will to make it the job of the biggest pain in the ass that I knew to figure out how to sustain an oxygen-dependent fire in space.

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:03 am

It seems like vaporization is the quickest most efficient way.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:31 am

Mikey wrote:I'd want a Viking funeral - burned in a ship in space.

I'd always leave it in my will to make it the job of the biggest pain in the ass that I knew to figure out how to sustain an oxygen-dependent fire in space.

Rocket fuel, gunpowder, they both have there own oxidizer. But yeah, set me a drift in a shuttlepod and light her up!

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:07 pm

Just set the shuttle's engines to overload.
Talk about going out with a bang.

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