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paulyoung666 · 15-01-2004, 10:07

just seen this , they cant be serious surely

dilli-theclaw · 15-01-2004, 10:13

I can see a time when this will happen.

Jon M · 15-01-2004, 10:14

If it's a serious topic.. lets have a serious topic title shall we :p

:ontopic:
Doesn't bother me personally.. I'd like to be buried when I go.. but if they need to dig me up in 100years to make some room.. then fine.
The only downside is for the family/descendants that want to visit .. I'd want them to replace my burial site with some sort of memory of me.. even if it is just a little plaque or something.

15-01-2004, 10:15

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

just seen this , they cant be serious surely

Why not? It happens in a lot of other countries. At the end of the day it's nothing more than a bundle of old bones, so I see no problem with re-burial or transferring them to an ossuary. As far as I`m concerned, when I`m dead my body can be thrown on the council tip. I've no longer any use for it and it is nothing more than a hunk of dead meat.

luftys · 15-01-2004, 10:16

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

just seen this , they cant be serious surely

Y not ship them all out to USA

Or if not 2 to a grave

I want to go in the same hole as pink

Ben · 15-01-2004, 10:18

jeez - I can kinda see there point but come on! surely no one wants to do this

basa · 15-01-2004, 10:25

No problem for me. I wanna be cremated and my ashes scattered in the Grand Canyon or Nevada Desert - I wanna be warm for once !!

(Some might say whatever way I go I'll be warm

)

15-01-2004, 10:26

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

just seen this , they cant be serious surely

you know what, not being funny or anything, but i thought they had been doing this for years, and i'm not really apposed to it. If you think about it, we only have a certain amount of space for graveyards, at sompoint we are going to run out. Don't get me wrong the graves would have to be of certain ages, and something would have to show that someone WAS buried there, but its either that or everyone gets cremated, which unfortunatly not everyone wants

Ramrod · 15-01-2004, 10:34

Read about this months ago. Dosn't bother me, I want my ashes scattered.
London has a problem atm with groundwater being contaminated with the contents of graveyards

....so burying the corpses even deeper does not sound like a great idea to me.

tkiely · 15-01-2004, 10:34

I'm surprised there's much left to move after 100 years! perhaps there should be a change in the way we bury people with less emphasis on preservation of the physical?

sorry if that sounds nasty, just trying to be practical

paulyoung666 · 15-01-2004, 10:37

thinking on wasnt there a proposal to bury people vertically to save space

zoombini · 15-01-2004, 10:52

They have been doing this for years in "Ank Morpork", bury them for a few years & then dig them up & stack them in a crypt... (see Terry Pratchets works of fiction

).

Perhaps the minister concerned with the idea had just read one of his books...lol

If they are going to dig the dead up, will the relatives get to reclaim them & bury them somewhere else themselves?

chambece · 15-01-2004, 11:07

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Originally Posted by zoombini

They have been doing this for years in "Ank Morpork", bury them for a few years & then dig them up & stack them in a crypt... (see Terry Pratchets works of fiction

).

Perhaps the minister concerned with the idea had just read one of his books...lol

If they are going to dig the dead up, will the relatives get to reclaim them & bury them somewhere else themselves?

I'm not sure on this, but I think a similar thing happens in Greece - If I recall when Chris Evans was doing his R1 Brek show Holly Samos went over to greece for the exhume. I don't know if anyone knows any more or can remember this.....

Theodoric · 15-01-2004, 11:44

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Originally Posted by dr wadd

Why not? It happens in a lot of other countries. At the end of the day it's nothing more than a bundle of old bones, so I see no problem with re-burial or transferring them to an ossuary. As far as I`m concerned, when I`m dead my body can be thrown on the council tip. I've no longer any use for it and it is nothing more than a hunk of dead meat.

Re reinterment or similar, that is quite right. I once visited Hallstatt in Austria which is a small town huddled between the mountains and a lake and with not much flat land. Bodies are disinterred from the graves after so many years and the bones neatly piled in an ossuary; in fact they even paint the skulls with decorations.

trebor · 15-01-2004, 12:32

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Originally Posted by zoombini

They have been doing this for years in "Ank Morpork", bury them for a few years & then dig them up & stack them in a crypt... (see Terry Pratchets works of fiction

).

Perhaps the minister concerned with the idea had just read one of his books...lol

If they are going to dig the dead up, will the relatives get to reclaim them & bury them somewhere else themselves?

if they are going to dig up the dead will the relatives get a refund, it's bloody expensive to bury to someone.

if cremation was the only way how long would it be before there was a connection to the pollution problem of greenhouse gases.