The worst thing about the lunar colonies is the lack of proper burial sites. No government wants to be the first to bury someone on the moon and have to deal with the religious hassle of whatever ceremony the deceased wanted to use so the general procedure is to jettison them.
It used to work just fine, the micro-boosters sending the coffin far off into space, to where we wouldn't have to deal with it until humanity could settle down that far from home. Now we're running out of micro-boosters and the bodies keep coming thanks to that collapse in Residential Sector 4 and the following suicides of their grieving loved ones.
The best we can do to keep the lunar colonies somewhat hygienic is to just push the bodies out of the airlocks and let them float away in whatever direction we can. It worked for brief while, even allowed the mourning to work through the stages of grief in around the same time as it took for the body to float out of sight.
We didn't exactly plan for them to float back around the moon.
There are just so many bodies and so many more to join them.
It used to work just fine, the micro-boosters sending the coffin far off into space, to where we wouldn't have to deal with it until humanity could settle down that far from home. Now we're running out of micro-boosters and the bodies keep coming thanks to that collapse in Residential Sector 4 and the following suicides of their grieving loved ones.
The best we can do to keep the lunar colonies somewhat hygienic is to just push the bodies out of the airlocks and let them float away in whatever direction we can. It worked for brief while, even allowed the mourning to work through the stages of grief in around the same time as it took for the body to float out of sight.
We didn't exactly plan for them to float back around the moon.
There are just so many bodies and so many more to join them.
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