In Islam, the dead should be buried on their right side facing towards Makkah, but that’s somewhat of a moot point since it should be in a shroud (not a coffin) allowing their bodies to return to the earth (not for spiritual reasons celebrating unity with Mother Earth or for reincarnation like some religions or cultures, more that the body is just a vessel that has served its purpose and should be allowed to decompose back to its source materials).

This coffin-less burial was largely forbidden by western laws and customs so Muslims have typically opted for the “plain pine box” option but there has been a new, secular resurgence of interest in this for ecological reasons and some zoning laws/cemeteries are beginning to allow this in the USA and elsewhere.

In a thousand years a religion will dictate that one has to be screwed into the ground to a certain torque specification...

… and the Saint Peter equivalent will check that your torque wrench calibration was still valid before letting you into heaven.

the Saint Peter equivalent should be the official name for the torque.

"When installing the screw-in coffin, be sure to set the torque to one Saint Peter, and one Our Father for good measure"

Hope the ground isn't too hard otherwise you are mostly left standing out of the ground.

I see a new above gound mausoleum of rectangular shapes filled with dirt so the screw can still be used into the medium filling the structure

Then the religion will need a soil composition and density specification too.

My god dictates that I'm to be buried in a standing position on frictionless bearings, so that I face East in the morning and West in the evening... so this gets us pretty close. Like my religion, this invention is a solution in search of a problem.

Could you screw it in at an angle? Must the body be horizontal or is 45 degrees fine?

find a cliff face and i'm sure this would work side ways... might even double as walkway anchor points...

At the foot of the walkway could be a plaque reading along the lines of "Special thanks for the individuals literally holding the supports in place: Bob, Jane, ..."

This would be a neat way to control errosion and stabilise the Earth.

The patent does say it can be installed at various angles, illustrated in figs. 25 and 26 (also of interest is fig. 27, which shows it buried in the bed of a shallow lake with a duck decoy affixed to the lid).

I mean from a religious adherence POV.

These are the pointless religious debates that just seem comical to me. Similar to the recent thread on if it was okay for Catholics to partake in chocolate. The fact there was continual debate throughout history is just so funny to me.

> Similar to the recent thread on if it was okay for Catholics to partake in chocolate.

Intriguing. Do you have a link?

search for theology of chocolate

Jesus was a carpenter right, I bet he would have loved this thing!