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    Gräber könnten im Rahmen von Vorschlägen zur Beseitigung des Platzmangels für die Toten wiederverwendet werden


    Gräber könnten im Rahmen von Vorschlägen zur Beseitigung des Platzmangels für die Toten wiederverwendet werden

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/03/graves-could-be-reused-under-proposals-to-tackle-lack-of-space-for-the-dead

    Von boycecodd

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    29 Comments

    1. DrNuclearSlav on

      I once saw a documentary about graves being re-used for housing. It was called Poltergeist.

    2. Old-Aside1538 on

      Perhaps it is time to admit the country is getting a little crowded.

    3. UnoriginalWebHandle on

      >There would also be safeguards for each individual grave. Where it is currently permitted, graves can only be considered for reuse when the last burial was made at least 75 years ago. The Commission is consulting on whether a new law should use that period, or a different one such as 100 years. If the family of the deceased person objects, no reuse can happen for another 25 years.

      This seems completely reasonable. Your loved ones will have a place to visit, but eventually they’ll die too and you’ll just be a name on a tombstone. The next generations should have the same opportunity to visit their dead.

    4. BigBeanMarketing on

      Just pop me in a bin or throw me in a river please, don’t need any pageantry.

    5. fascinesta on

      Pop me in the oven at 500C for 30-40 minutes and serve me over chips for all I care.

    6. Ju5hin on

      Maybe it’s just because I’m atheist, but I’ve never understood the concept of graves… Or at least since cremation became a thing.

      I can’t imagine why anyone would want to be thrown into a hole in the ground and left to rot.

    7. MrPloppyHead on

      Soylent green is the way forward surely? 🤔 then all the problems go away.

    8. southcoastal on

      Viking burials.

      Or have weekly lorrys collecting corpses and driving them up the tops of mountains so the birds and animals can pick the bones clean.

    10. Emotional-Ebb8321 on

      I’d rather be buried under a tree and help push up daisies that way.

    11. FancyMan_ on

      We should do what Paris did, build a huge catacombs and chuck all the old bodies in there

    12. kahnindustries on

      You could easily fit a 2 bed studio apt in each of those graves. £2850pm

    13. IhateALLmushrooms on

      No space for the living. No space for the dead. No space in prisons.

      Cannot even go to jail to live rent free FML!
      Now cannot even die not to pay someone something.

    14. CaptMelonfish on

      Crypts not a thing anymore?
      If people could figure this out centuries ago why can’t we?

    15. SuperMegaBeard on

      Hands up all those that don’t want to be ~~crucified~~ buried here.

    16. JoeDaStudd on

      This was extremely common in the past.

      Some old cemetery in cities are higher then surrounding areas despite roads street levels rising and it’s one of the main reasons why catacombs exist.

    17. Mambo_Poa09 on

      I don’t understand why people are still buried instead of cremated, just keep using up more and more space for this forever?

    18. _TLDR_Swinton on

      You should get 100 years in a grave. Then you get exhumed and cremated. 

    19. Slurpielips123 on

      I want to see sky burials on the mountains of Scotland and Wales and the lake district where ospreys and ravens feast on the corpses…….then all the bird shite gets turned into fertiliser afterwards…..

    20. Malagate3 on

      Wow, 75 years, or even up to 100 – used to be just 5 years in the hole, then dug up and off to the charnel house or an ossuary. Heck, we only stopped doing it in Britain because it was seen as too catholic.

      Personally I’d opt for fire and be done with it, whether that’s in a crematorium, a pyre, or in a long boat is up to how much I can save up before dying.

    21. TehH4rRy on

      Why don’t be bury them vertically? Gotta be able to cram more biomatter into the ground when they’re all stood up next to one another. An afterlife moshpit.

    22. DigbyGibbers on

      I’ve said in my will I want one of these eco funerals where they just wrap you in a sheet and pop you in a hole in the woods. No chemicals or fancy boxes or bullshit, stick me in the hole and be done with it.

    23. fourlegsfaster on

      My parents bought a double plot for 50 years, they were given the choice of 25 or 50, years or permanent. They decided on 50 because they were calculating the lifespans of grandchildren and great grandchildren, who could possibly have an interest in visiting their very pretty grave site. The plot they bought was pre-used. [https://www.ford-park-cemetery.org/index.php/cemetery-services/burials](https://www.ford-park-cemetery.org/index.php/cemetery-services/burials)

      There are plenty of green/woodland cemeteries around. [https://www.woodlandburialcompany.com/](https://www.woodlandburialcompany.com/)

    24. CptnBrokenkey on

      We’re losing allotments and pitch n putt golf courses round here to make more room for cemeteries. I fully support this proposal.

    25. JRH_678 on

      They should go the other way. Make graveyards more permanent. Introduce laws protecting them for 1000+ years. Make tree planting mandatory. Make graveyards dual-use as parks/forest nature reserves. Tax carbon-intensive cremation until cost-parity is acheived. Use graveyards as a way of protecting green space from developers.

    27. BroodLord1962 on

      Burials should be stopped altogether, it should be cremations only

    28. rejs7 on

      This was the historic practice during the medieval and early modern period when graveyards ran out of room. It’s the reason why you see gravestones in old church yards propped up in unusual places.

    29. 8Ace8Ace on

      I want my remains scattered at Disneyland.

      Also: I do not wish to be cremated.

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