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Don_Dickle @lemmy.world

2d ago

I saw a couple movies in the 90s where a person kills another then buries them and then plant flowers and their the best? Is this actually true or a movie trope?

I keep seeing commercials for Gross Pointe Garden Society it made me wonder.

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Corpses are pretty good fertilizer. I think there are some groups who will bury a goat carcass under their veg beds? But yeah it works super well.
- The story of the pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving included them burying fish with the crops to help them grow better.
  
  Yep! Now we have ready made fish meal, I use it in my cannabis bed.

80s, rather than 90s, and music, rather than film but R.E.M. have a song called The Flowers of Guatemala which mentions this practice, in relation to the military dictatorship there making 40,000 people disappear and putting flowerbeds in on top (or possibly just wild flowers growing there, I'm not sure)
Cheery stuff!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_genocide?wprov=sfla1

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