Living in a city there is always going to be space issues – its part of city life, this is also an issue for the dead apparently. The BBC tonight reported at the City of London cemetery, in the east of the city – incidently the place where most of my ancestors are interred, has decided that because there is a space issue they are going to start digging people up and re-burying them deeper so they can slot a couple of strangers into the plot.
They are writing to last know relatives to ask permission but those that have been in the ground for more that 75 years are to just be exhumed.
So much for rest in peace. Perhaps we should return to the days when we stored the bones of our dead in Ossuaries(a sort of mass bone room). The disposal of our dead has been troublesome for centuries.
Personally I like the Soylent Green idea – it alleviates the burial issue and could help the third world food crisis to boot.
Final Insult
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