how sick is this (taken from AOL news)
‘Re-use graves or forget burials’
A major new government review of burial law will ask if human remains should be exhumed so grave plots can be reused. It comes two years after MPs recommended that recycling long-abandoned graves was the only way to save historic cemeteries from decline. Failure to act could deny people the choice to opt for burial over cremation, they warned. The Home Office was launching a programme which would see all religions asked for their ideas on updating burial laws in England and Wales, some of which are more than 200 years old. Junior minister Paul Goggins was due to publish full details, although the document was not believed to contain definite proposals. In March 2001, an all-party House of Commons committee called for a fundamental shift away from the idea that burials should remain undisturbed for all time. They warned Britain was running out of cemetery space and suffering the slow decline of some of the nation’s grandest monuments.
MPs recommended bodies that had lain in graveyards for 75 to 100 years should be exhumed and reburied in a deeper grave, allowing the plot to be used for a second burial.
A Home Office spokeswoman confirmed the document would ask for views on exhumations and the re-use of old graves.
“We want to know what the public thinks is acceptable,” she said.
15/01/2004 13:50
this is so wrong i can’t even begin to describe it.
xxx
Posted on Thu, 15 January 2004 at 21:51
