What are they doing in Aokigokhara with the found corpses?

[Tristan Reeveur]

If anybody knows, plese answer.

 

[autumnal]

If anybody knows, plese answer.

The Wikipedia entry says they do yearly body searches there. Presumably they then go through the standard procedures to identify a body, and then either release it to the family if identified, or the Government buries/cremates it if unidentified. Is that what you wanted to know?

 

[Tristan Reeveur]

The Wikipedia entry says they do yearly body searches there. Presumably they then go through the standard procedures to identify a body, and then either release it to the family if identified, or the Government buries/cremates it if unidentified. Is that what you wanted to know?

Thank you very much! Not exaсtly. The main question is what are they doing after burning? Is there any cemetery for urns or they simple throw out garbage?

 

[autumnal]

Thank you very much! Not exaсtly. The main question is what are they doing after burning? Is there any cemetery for urns or they simple throw out garbage?

Again, Wikipedia says there is a 99% cremation rate in Japan, and then remains are normally placed in family graves. My guess is that unidentified remains are probably cremated by authorities and then placed in some kind of pauper's grave or even grave apartments. The cultural importance of graves makes me guess it is unlikely that cremated remains, even those of the unidentified, would simply be discarded. But to know for sure you would probably need to research on Japanese government websites, which are probably only in the Japanese language.

Are you planning on dying unidentified over there?

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P.S. This is an awesome-looking Japanese cemetery. It really reminds me of a SimCity map!

 

[BaconCheeseburger]

The Wikipedia entry says they do yearly body searches there. Presumably they then go through the standard procedures to identify a body, and then either release it to the family if identified, or the Government buries/cremates it if unidentified. Is that what you wanted to know?

imagine if you CTB the day after a yearly search, and you've got to wait an entire year to be found...

 

[autumnal]

imagine if you CTB the day after a yearly search, and you've got to wait an entire year to be found...

I imagine there are probably smaller searches on a more frequent basis, plus obviously targeted searches when someone specific is suspected of having gone there, plus people discovered accidentally by hikers etc. Probably the yearly search is just the largest and most official and comprehensive one.

 

[enjolras]

99% cremation. Too bad, it could have been a hell of a playground for dogs' walking with bones everywhere.
Not even good at giving back to living creatures when we leave. Humans ...so special !

 

[Soul]

99% cremation. Too bad, it could have been a hell of a playground for dogs' walking with bones everywhere.
Not even good at giving back to living creatures when we leave. Humans ...so special !

Ahh but cremation gives back space for other living creatures to do their thing in.

I admire the Tibetan sky burial tradition. I gather ancient Britons did something similar. @Underscore my sweet, can you help me?

 

[Tristan Reeveur]

Are you planning on dying unidentified over there?

Thank you! Yes, I am.

imagine if you CTB the day after a yearly search, and you've got to wait an entire year to be found...

It's not a problem for dead man:-)

 

[autumnal]

99% cremation. Too bad, it could have been a hell of a playground for dogs' walking with bones everywhere.
Not even good at giving back to living creatures when we leave. Humans ...so special !

But it's not like they would have left the bodies in the actual forest or reburried them there afterwards anyway. They are trying to discourage it from being a suicide venue, not promote it!

 

[SpareWheel]

Is that the place the berk from YouTube went while wearing a silly hat? I forget his name, some non-entity that fought another guy in a celeb boxing match, Joe Welland? Something like that.

 

[Tristan Reeveur]

99% cremation. Too bad, it could have been a hell of a playground for dogs' walking with bones everywhere.

There are no animals in Aokigahara.....

Is that the place the berk from YouTube went while wearing a silly hat? I forget his name, some non-entity that fought another guy in a celeb boxing match, Joe Welland? Something like that.

Yes, it is.

 

[Vault of Memories]

Is that the place the berk from YouTube went while wearing a silly hat? I forget his name, some non-entity that fought another guy in a celeb boxing match, Joe Welland? Something like that.

Logan Paul?
Yeah, he filmed a dead body or something there I remember that. It's how I found out who he was, I had already known about this forest, which is referred to as The Suicide Forrest, thanks to my depression. It's one of the most popular suicide locations in the world.

 

[enjolras]

Spoiler

Sorry I was being humorous about the place.
Its the nationwide stat that shocked me, like we take so much from the nature while we live, up to changing our own with desires (say, fake boobs), to continue withdrawing from its natural course when we die (burning that PVC). Meanwhile, a primitive forrest must have a myriad of wild life, including insects, which could benefit from decomposition, a primordial step in the food chain.
Yet, it's like we're ever so sacred, while certainly distraught from the thought to return blending with our foster. We just keep doing our own things.

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It questions me when a peaceful pill is requested to be produced for everyone. We'd become even more of a burden as toxic wastes.

Apologies for the distraction. I thought OP was only curious, not actually planning.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

Ahh but cremation gives back space for other living creatures to do their thing in.

I admire the Tibetan sky burial tradition. I gather ancient Britons did something similar. @Underscore my sweet, can you help me?

There's not much evidence of it iirc, simply because it wouldn't leave much archaeological evidence. However, in Neolithic long barrows, inhumations we're usually disarticulated, and stored in specific places in the tomb. So, all the long bones in one part, skulls in another, children in another, etc.
The monuments were open throughout their use and only sealed when they went out of use in the later period. It is thought that the bones were taken out of the tomb at specific times and used in ancestor rituals in society. If that was true, then the bodies would have to be defleshed before disarticulation and I can't think of a better way than sky burial.
I may look into it some more and see if I can find some actual evidence for ancient British sky burials.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

There's not much evidence of it iirc, simply because it wouldn't leave much archaeological evidence. However, in Neolithic long barrows, inhumations we're usually disarticulated, and stored in specific places in the tomb. So, all the long bones in one part, skulls in another, children in another, etc.
The monuments were open throughout their use and only sealed when they went out of use in the later period. It is thought that the bones were taken out of the tomb at specific times and used in ancestor rituals in society. If that was true, then the bodies would have to be defleshed before disarticulation and I can't think of a better way than sky burial.
I may look into it some more and see if I can find some actual evidence for ancient British sky burials.

Some evidence at Stonehenge from Mike Parker Pearson's groundbreaking excavations. Detailed towards the end. Note, however, that it's just one interpretation of the evidence.

Stonehenge and sky burial – The Good Funeral Guide

www.goodfuneralguide.co.uk

 

[I’mDone]

There are no animals in Aokigahara.....

I very much doubt that!

 

[autumnal]

I very much doubt that!

Yeah, the Wikipedia entry mentions a bunch of various ones.