Rent a grave !

[Rena]

I couldn't agree more CatOne,

I thought bodies were meant to be left to rest in peace not to have their stones defaced and have complete strangers buried on top.... I'm so angry.....

Legs
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I thought graves had to be 6ft deep.  How can another coffin be placed on top and still be legal?

Rena

[sadieh33]

This is appalling. Is nothing sacred anymore. I'm from Australia. In some states here they have a policy that after 25yrs you have to re pay if you want to keep the site. This is another example of greed gone mad.

One would think in this day and age that another solution could be found. People will keep dying and nothing will stop that from happening. Space is an issue, this is undeniable, however forward planning doesn't seem to be a priority. It appears that the usual "quick fix" is the preferred alternative.

If a viable solution isn't found, the next thing we'll be reading about is the sale of cemetery land for development.

I don't have any worthwhile ideas about how to fix this, but I do know that someone has to draw a line in the sand sometime. It seems that anything is up for grabs in our modern society, and that's just not good enough.

[Penninah]

Rena- I wouldnt be suprised if they plan on digging up the original grave if only 6ft and burying it deeper therefor to allow room to put in another coffin! Disgraceful!

[JK]

If a viable solution isn't found, the next thing we'll be reading about is the sale of cemetery land for development.

Whilst searching earlier I found this,
http://www.derelictlondon.com/cemetery.htm
If you read the text about Wood Grange Park Cemetery it seems that it has already happened,  it's not the same cemetery as the one in the Daily Mail article but is close by. It appears that local authorities don't consider burial ground as sacred at all does it . The powers that be will stop at nothing to make money. Would have to be a big hoohaa to get a full stop to these desecrations.

[meles]

I'm sorry to tell you all this is the norm. A grave plot is seldom given in perpetuity. It was quite usual to allow someone else to be buried there some (about 20-50) years later. Some graveyards do allow a permanent site, but they are the exception.

Remember Hamlet? Yorick was dug up 10 years later for someone else.

meles

[CatOne]

Well as the councils arent interested in preserving the actual cemeteries, how about preserving the memories of these people by creating a "virtual cemetery" with photos of the memorials and inscriptions, similar to what the CWGC site have done for fallen soldiers (I recently printed off a memorial certificate for a great uncle who fell in the 2nd World War), that way theres a permanent "memorial" to them....... maybe donating "hard copies" to be preserved by our National Archives/Records Offices..... its one cemetery now, it'll be hundreds, maybe thousands over the years...... all those families scratched out of existance

Surely the council wouldn't object to this being done in memory of all those people they are trampling on!

[alllegs]

Excellent idea CatOne,

Will we have to volunteer or do you think the council will get off there bottoms and make an effort to preserve the past?!

Legs
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[meles]

Do you think that Council Tax payers would support the costs of such an exercise? I'm afraid that cutting (local authority) costs is why it's so hard to get info nowadays.

meles

[angela_wil]

Yes I think it's disgusting about what they are trying to do, I live up North but feel that if they started doing it in London where else would they do it.

They should preserve out Heritage not destroy it.