Petroleum: Let the Dead Rest In Peace

When the dinosaurs passed, and sunk into the earth, and became a wonder to archaeologists, historians and catholics: it was a natural cycle of the earth. It was a respectful burial, designed to allow their age to pass, and a new age of man to rise from the ashes and inherit the earth.

For thousands of years, man has enacted the same right of passage on its own people at the time of their death. Returning the body to the earth and allowing it to be at peace in its final state of rest. The spiritual aside, there was another important reason why the dead should be buried below the earth. So that the natural process of reclamation, which is an ugly process, and disease ridden, would not affect the rest of the lives that were still living on the surface of the earth. It was a basic measure for maintaining the public health.

So when we decided to remove dead dinosaurs from the ground, burn them into the atmosphere and make food containers out of them, shouldn’t it have occurred to us that perhaps resurrecting the dead for our own ends might be a bad idea?

Just a thought?