I once saw a documentary about graves being re-used for housing. It was called Poltergeist.
Old-Aside1538 on
Perhaps it is time to admit the country is getting a little crowded.
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.
NuPNua on
But there’s still room in hell though right? Don’t want the dead rising.
BigBeanMarketing on
Just pop me in a bin or throw me in a river please, don’t need any pageantry.
fascinesta on
Pop me in the oven at 500C for 30-40 minutes and serve me over chips for all I care.
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.
MrPloppyHead on
Soylent green is the way forward surely? 🤔 then all the problems go away.
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.
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Emotional-Ebb8321 on
I’d rather be buried under a tree and help push up daisies that way.
FancyMan_ on
We should do what Paris did, build a huge catacombs and chuck all the old bodies in there
kahnindustries on
You could easily fit a 2 bed studio apt in each of those graves. £2850pm
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.
CaptMelonfish on
Crypts not a thing anymore?
If people could figure this out centuries ago why can’t we?
50YrOldNoviceGymMan on
So what happens to the body of the previous occupant ?
SuperMegaBeard on
Hands up all those that don’t want to be ~~crucified~~ buried here.
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.
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?
_TLDR_Swinton on
You should get 100 years in a grave. Then you get exhumed and cremated.Â
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…..
another_online_idiot on
Just cremate everyone. No need for all these ridiculous expanses of cemeteries all over the place.
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.
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.
WittyChipButty on
Wow… So you die and the burial plot is yours? You don’t buy the plot for x amount of years?
Scatter funeral plots are also not a thing here? Big plot of grass or unground tomb with just a column full of names.
When a friend of mine buried her grandma they put the nanny’s ashes onto a pedestrial, played some fancy fountain dancing while the grandma trickeled down to an underground tomb. It looked really pretty.
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.
aj-uk on
I don’t see the need to have a gravestone, a semi permanent memorial a tree planted on top with your name eventually just on a list of the interned would be fine, but I’d prefer a natural buriel myself.
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)
Are those death tree pod things real? If so that’s a better alternative then graves. Stick a tree down put a plaque on it, job done.
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.
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.
SuperpoliticsENTJ on
Didn’t this happen in the Czech Republic and Guatamala?
Usual-Excitement-970 on
This housing crisis is really getting out of control.
BroodLord1962 on
Burials should be stopped altogether, it should be cremations only
Practical-Purchase-9 on
They’ve always reused graves, or churches would have been filled long ago. They dig them out and inter the remains into an ossuary or they dig the plot deeper and put them back and more in on top.
I recall reading that in 18th century Paris they were pushing people in ten deep and not bothering digging the plot out first. The walls of the catacombs were bursting sideways into neighboring cellars or some into the river.
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.
Thestolenone on
We’ve been doing this for centuries, go in any parish church graveyard and there are recognisable human bones lying round in the soil. They would either put the larger bones in an ossuary or bury them under the new coffin.
8Ace8Ace on
I want my remains scattered at Disneyland.
Also: I do not wish to be cremated.
Meet-me-behind-bins on
I’ve been to loads of old graveyards, this is a pretty common thing. They’ve been doing it for centuries. Formerly you rented your space and if your family stopped paying the grave was fair game.
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I once saw a documentary about graves being re-used for housing. It was called Poltergeist.
Perhaps it is time to admit the country is getting a little crowded.
>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.
But there’s still room in hell though right? Don’t want the dead rising.
Just pop me in a bin or throw me in a river please, don’t need any pageantry.
Pop me in the oven at 500C for 30-40 minutes and serve me over chips for all I care.
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.
Soylent green is the way forward surely? 🤔 then all the problems go away.
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.
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I’d rather be buried under a tree and help push up daisies that way.
We should do what Paris did, build a huge catacombs and chuck all the old bodies in there
You could easily fit a 2 bed studio apt in each of those graves. £2850pm
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.
Crypts not a thing anymore?
If people could figure this out centuries ago why can’t we?
So what happens to the body of the previous occupant ?
Hands up all those that don’t want to be ~~crucified~~ buried here.
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.
I don’t understand why people are still buried instead of cremated, just keep using up more and more space for this forever?
You should get 100 years in a grave. Then you get exhumed and cremated.Â
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…..
Just cremate everyone. No need for all these ridiculous expanses of cemeteries all over the place.
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.
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.
Wow… So you die and the burial plot is yours? You don’t buy the plot for x amount of years?
Scatter funeral plots are also not a thing here? Big plot of grass or unground tomb with just a column full of names.
When a friend of mine buried her grandma they put the nanny’s ashes onto a pedestrial, played some fancy fountain dancing while the grandma trickeled down to an underground tomb. It looked really pretty.
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.
I don’t see the need to have a gravestone, a semi permanent memorial a tree planted on top with your name eventually just on a list of the interned would be fine, but I’d prefer a natural buriel myself.
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/)
Are those death tree pod things real? If so that’s a better alternative then graves. Stick a tree down put a plaque on it, job done.
We’re losing allotments and pitch n putt golf courses round here to make more room for cemeteries. I fully support this proposal.
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.
Didn’t this happen in the Czech Republic and Guatamala?
This housing crisis is really getting out of control.
Burials should be stopped altogether, it should be cremations only
They’ve always reused graves, or churches would have been filled long ago. They dig them out and inter the remains into an ossuary or they dig the plot deeper and put them back and more in on top.
I recall reading that in 18th century Paris they were pushing people in ten deep and not bothering digging the plot out first. The walls of the catacombs were bursting sideways into neighboring cellars or some into the river.
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.
We’ve been doing this for centuries, go in any parish church graveyard and there are recognisable human bones lying round in the soil. They would either put the larger bones in an ossuary or bury them under the new coffin.
I want my remains scattered at Disneyland.
Also: I do not wish to be cremated.
I’ve been to loads of old graveyards, this is a pretty common thing. They’ve been doing it for centuries. Formerly you rented your space and if your family stopped paying the grave was fair game.