"To chant “Long live!” is to contradict natural laws. Everyone has to die sooner or later, whether they be killed by germs, crushed by a collapsing house, or blown to smithereens by an atom bomb. Anyway, one way or another everyone ends up dead. After people die they shouldn’t be allowed to occupy any more space. They should be cremated. I’ll take the lead. We should all be burnt after we die, turned into ashes and used for fertilizer.
-Mao Zedong, in comments made when signing “A Proposal that all Central Leaders be Cremated after Death” in November 1956"