What did the vault dwellers do with their dead?

It would be safe to assume with the need to keep the little space they have in a Vault for important things to dispose of the dead through cremation and with recycling technologies possibly use the dead for some mundane nutrient purposes. You could cremate them then use the ashes as fertilizer...

Im SO surprised no one brought up the word necrophilia in this thread...

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
Wow, i realize that the pages on this topic had reached 3, you guys must like death, or dead whatever the case.
Anyways, have any of you yet reached a solid conclusion, because Im getting lost with al these Ideas. I personally don´t thin they recycled their dead anyways, it would be desperate.
 
Why wouldnt they? I bet there is lot of stuff on a cadaver that can be put to good use, and body recicling is very common in sci-fi settings that deal with limited resources. I have a particular fondness for the recicling vats on sid meyer's alpha centauri.
 
I personally would like to see a more detailed Vault in future Fallout releases (sigh, gasp), if there is ever to be one. This conversation just brings out the obvious - the 3-layered vault layout in Fallout, that reached F2 etc was a little minimized. OK, it did the job but a lot of questions were left open and it really didn`t look like an environment one could function in for such a long time without going insane. On experiment would be to play a game inside the vault for the first 2 weeks. Imagine if Fallout 1 wouldn`t start in the caverns and you`d have to play inside the Vault for a while.
What exactly would you do in there?

I understand the notion of an open ended universe - it`s the only one worth building since it leaves paths open and intrigues the imagination. But I would like this consept to apply to perhaps the car-example someone gave (1 car per 200 people in F2 - way too much cars, man!) not to such important and somewhat legendary places as the Vault.

About the dead - I imagine a cremation being a pretty neat way to solve the problem - Alien 3 style "dropping into the pit" things would be nice.

Another topic this conversation points out is religion. Even a typical 50`s american population is bound to have people of different religios beliefs. I`m not an expert but wouldn`t some of them demand being set in ground to have their last sleep. I mean, id it would be a matter of getting to sing with the angels or loose your soul forever, I`d take thing such as burial rites pretty seriously.

And ministers. At least one person eith judaist prayers would be required. Etc.
 
That's right! How bout the dwellers religions, there had to be some that advocated for a ceremonial burial (after the vault opened) or the preservation of the bodies for religious reasons. Think about it.
 
It was only 64 years between the time the vaults closed and opened. How many bodies do you think would stack up in that time?
 
Well, assuming the occupants were 20 or so when they went in (which is somewhat conservative anyway. Many would be likely to be older) and 1000 occupants per vault. If you count in accidents and stillborns (pretty likely in an area of high radiation, even in the vaults there is going to be increased levels) I would estimate one to two thousand.
That's a completely uneducated guess though.
 
I think we have our answer from the game Evil Genius. They simply put the bodies in giant freezers.
 
Pretty big freezer to hold 1000 bodies. :D

It's pretty much inevitable that a vault would recycle the bodies in some form, not as food, but possibly as fertiliser (possibly in the form of ash). Storing the bodies is stupid when storage space is at a premium and you have no real option to expand. It would be a liability for them to dump them outside, both as it makes it obvious that they are there and it unseals the vault (even with airlocks there is still some risk of contamination attatched to leaving the vault).

As to whether they did this in the Vault Tec Vaults in Fallout, maybe, but in a real life vault I think that they would have to.
 
Hey! 1000 bodies in a freezer is very possible if you accommodate them properly, besides there is PLENTY of space underground, all you have to do is dig.
Another thing. I would certainly conceder to buy a vault space if they are going to recycle my body to feed the plants and then other people, or eat people fertilized vegetables.

Prime cut selection is made of people! It's made of people! (From FO1 Bob Iguana Bits)
 
Lt. Col. Gonzalez said:
Prime cut selection is made of people! It's made of people! (From FO1 Bob Iguana Bits)
Click to expand...

Sorry for going offtopic, but I have heard that exact line other places, only with "Soylent Green" instead of Bobs Iguana/Prime Cut selection. Any idea where that is from? :?
 
The Fertilizer idea would make sense if they had some kind of hydroponics bay, which also makes sense.
 
Brutulf said:
Lt. Col. Gonzalez said:
Prime cut selection is made of people! It's made of people! (From FO1 Bob Iguana Bits)
Click to expand...

Sorry for going offtopic, but I have heard that exact line other places, only with "Soylent Green" instead of Bobs Iguana/Prime Cut selection. Any idea where that is from? :?
Click to expand...

From the film "Soylent Green", the sentence in Fallout is a sort of homage to the movie.
 
The Mutant Squeege said:
Then again maybe they jsut went out once a year and threw out all their dead?
Click to expand...

Uh...Wasnt the vault first opened when the vault dweller started his quest? :?
 
supposedly some other vault dwellers were sent out with the same mission, but they obviously failed

you get to meet a couple in the game
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top