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Ha! It’s not what you think, but now that I have your attention…
Here’s a facinating article about burial plat shortage in Britain. The solution from the country that gave us the double-decker bus is the double-decker grave. 😯
I particularly like the line about “insignificant” stones. I know what they mean, but it’s an odd choice of word.
One would like to think that your final resting place, claiming about 2×6 feet of ground, would be yours for eternity, but sooner or later time reclaims everything.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5150884.ece
On the Left Side of the Road...In Germany they bury the dead upright as a means of saving space. In fact I saw a head stone with about 5 names on it. Meaning they kept placing bodies in the same spot over time. What is happening in the UK does not seem like a new idea but it is new to us as we do not have the space shortage yet in this country.
Come to think of it I have heard of a practice of temporarily burying people in a cemetery just to give them some “time” there, before exhuming them for cremation or other such disposal.
On the Left Side of the Road...Just throw a match on me when it’s my time.
@tyedyeskyguy wrote:
Just throw a match on me when it’s my time.
Are you normally combustible? Or do we need to bring accelerants too?
On the Left Side of the Road...I love the smell of accelerants in the morning…
I say donate whatever anyone will take and throw the rest of me in the garbage.
Google ‘charnal house’.
@gotta run wrote:
Come to think of it I have heard of a practice of temporarily burying people in a cemetery just to give them some “time” there, before exhuming them for cremation or other such disposal.
I heard or read the same thing a few months back. If memory serves, I think the “time” was for decomposing purposes.
I have to agree with TyeDye. Just burn me when my time is done.
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