Do you ever wonder, in those houses built stratigically next to graveyards are those occupants in the house drinking residual waste products (or atoms/particles that the body is composed of) of those buried next to them? Think about it, if they are drinking well water, coffins begin to break down over time right??? Is it plausible to aussume they are consuming their belovedly deceased???
-Just Something I have always thought about
Every breath you take, statistically speaking, has in it thousands or millions of atoms breathed by any dead person anywhere at any time.
The food you eat has absorbed the atoms of millions of dead creatures, including humans.
The water you drink has in it the piss of a zillion dead people.
The earth is a closed system for recycling, for all intents and purposes. The dead never go away. You yourself are composed of pieces of a million ancestors.
It’s either awe inspiringly amazing or the merest nothing of an obviousness. Or both.
It is so crazy to think about… so you think the concentration levels consumed by people living next to graveyards is substantially higher? Or the atom/ particles they are consuming more less recently introduced from decaying bodies next door?
-just thinking about it puts so much into perspective.
Well, if you can get yourself grossed out by thinking you’re made up of parts of dead people, you can try to elevate yourself by realizing that every part of you was originally created in a star.
I am specifying in my will that I am to be buried in a 36" diameter PVC Pipe, which will be sealed on both ends, and evacuated as much as possible.
I can’t speak for everyone, but at least other people will not breath me.
If I recall correctly, one hypothesis for the poor health of the Bronte family is that they were drinking grave contaminated water every day.
Sorry, no online cite, but about 10 years ago I read a case study on finding points of groundwater pollution where an eventual culprit was discovered to be a local graveyard - the chemicals used for embalming (formaldehyde, and at the time the corpses in the graveyard were enbalmed, arsenic) were leaching into the groundwater from a long used graveyard. So although drinking people might seem to be terrible, the chemicals we use to preserve them could be worse…
and to think that I opened this thread thinking this would be about some new weird service like putting your ashes into a firework shell or launching them into orbit via satellite…
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So … any of you guys got any weed?
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And yes. That was a joke. 
Well, on reflection, the human body contains a fair quantity of hydrogen (in combination with other elements) which isn’t the product of stellar fusion, but oxygen, nitrogen, iron, phosphorus and carbon certainly are.
Don’t feel bad, I opened it thinking the same thing, like someone was going to do some cremains shots for a departed drinking buddy or something like that.
Personnally, I expected worse. For instance some recent reader of “Dune” wondering if we could make something useful with all these wasted bodies.
I immediately flashed on a scene from a movie about the rainforest (Green Jungle or something). The tribe burned their dead. They crushed any remaining bones to powder and kept the powder in large jar shaped like a fertitlity goddess. On special occasions, the shaman would scoop out some of the powder, add some water, and the whole tribe would pass the cup.
I don’t know whether this particular practice was fictional. However, many of the things the tribe did were confirmed as factual by my anthropology professor back in my college years.
I think the OP is right, but not in all that interesting a case. I’m personally a lot more worried about being near a highway, because they report that lead levels are higher there from the exhaust fumes settling into the soil.
Just remember anything past iron must have happened via a super nova, or God.
Whenever I live next to a cemetary, I always specify that the well must be drilled through bedrock to a separate aquifer. I only drink bodies from the cemetary on the next hill, over.
Drinking the dead isn’t so bad,after all,I’ve eaten a few of the living in my time (if you get my drift) 