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  • 11/14/2008 at 1:52 pm #1727315
    gotta run

      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

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      11/14/2008 at 8:50 pm #1897830
      Team Hemisphere Dancer

        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.

        11/14/2008 at 9:10 pm #1897831
        gotta run

          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.

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          11/14/2008 at 9:24 pm #1897832
          TyeDyeSkyGuy

            Just throw a match on me when it’s my time.

            11/14/2008 at 9:42 pm #1897833
            gotta run

              @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?

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              11/14/2008 at 9:45 pm #1897834
              Team Honeybunnies

                I love the smell of accelerants in the morning…

                11/14/2008 at 9:50 pm #1897835
                lone_gunman

                  I say donate whatever anyone will take and throw the rest of me in the garbage.

                  11/14/2008 at 10:57 pm #1897836
                  marc_54140

                    Google ‘charnal house’.

                    11/14/2008 at 11:59 pm #1897837
                    furfool

                      @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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