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It's in poor taste, but as we increase the frequency of our visits to the Moon we are going to have to face the possibility of people dying there, so we better set aside a crater for that purpose.

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Is the moon's escape velocity too great for catapult?

Of corpse, we'll need sufficient margin of error to avoid corpsessler syndrome.

Edit: this is also in poor taste.

1.87km/s to reach low moon orbit

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/29861/how-easy-is-...).

But don’t forget that the majority of low lunar orbits are not stable due to the sub surface mass concentrations which make the moon’s gravity “lumpy enough” that it pulls you off course unless you either use one of the few stable orbits or actively use fuel to maintain a desired orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_concentration_(astronomy)

Moon's haunted meme.

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