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Cemetery How Much Longer?
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There has been an ongoing row in our small town for more than 20 years over the lack of a cemetery. The one we have is full and the only place for an other one is considered 'too small' for the demand. Council say that if this site is not suitable the next option is to use one in a town 15 miles away.
This has caused comments that it would be too far to travel to visit a grave.
My point is, in a world of ever growing population how can we spare land that could be used for housing or agriculture, to bury dead people?
Cremation should be compulsory do we agree?
This has caused comments that it would be too far to travel to visit a grave.
My point is, in a world of ever growing population how can we spare land that could be used for housing or agriculture, to bury dead people?
Cremation should be compulsory do we agree?
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07:29 Sun 03rd May 2015
people have been reusing graves for centuries. Typically, bones would be dug up from old graves and put in a charnel house, and new bodies put in the grave. Headstones that were still legible might be laid against the church wall.
My guess is graves should be rented out for 100 years (or some other period that people agree on); if no family member wants to pay to renew the lease after that, then it can be renewed.
I wouldn't like to see compulsory cremation, no.
My guess is graves should be rented out for 100 years (or some other period that people agree on); if no family member wants to pay to renew the lease after that, then it can be renewed.
I wouldn't like to see compulsory cremation, no.
No I don't think the State making how you are disposed of, their compulsory choice, is a good idea. The State should keep out of such personal decisions. We've managed for centuries as we are. We all return to the earth eventually. A few bones need not be an issue now. The big issue is how to persuade folk they don't need so many offspring such that all sorts of similar problems grow exponentially.
Meanwhile maybe dig up older graves and cremate the contents, or perhaps bury them lower.
Meanwhile maybe dig up older graves and cremate the contents, or perhaps bury them lower.
No, I most certainly don't Eddie. I don't know where you live but I'm sure some ground can be found for a new cemetery.
Graves are for the living, not the dead. I am glad that both my parents were buried and that I can visit both of their graves, with younger nieces and nephews, that weren't even born when they died.
On my Mum's grave, we had one of the china "photographs" put on her gravestone, and my niece, who is only 8, always says how pretty her Grannie looks.
May is a busy time for my family, as they both died in this month, Mum in 1996 and Dad in 1999, and we take the visits to the graves very seriously.
Graves are for the living, not the dead. I am glad that both my parents were buried and that I can visit both of their graves, with younger nieces and nephews, that weren't even born when they died.
On my Mum's grave, we had one of the china "photographs" put on her gravestone, and my niece, who is only 8, always says how pretty her Grannie looks.
May is a busy time for my family, as they both died in this month, Mum in 1996 and Dad in 1999, and we take the visits to the graves very seriously.
I couldn't keep anyone's remains in my home. I can't go into the room in my dad's house in which he keeps my mum's ashes. (are they really hers? I'm not convinced.)
However, I don't think a grave is necessary either. We should cremate and put the remains in a dedicated crypt, or similar, where people could leave photos and flowers if it helped them.
However, I don't think a grave is necessary either. We should cremate and put the remains in a dedicated crypt, or similar, where people could leave photos and flowers if it helped them.
