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Originally Posted by susie123
I doubt if after all this time there would be much left in the way of actual bodies, more like a few piles of bones and some coffin handles. That would require archaeology to sort it out and that don't come cheap. Ain't gonna happen.
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The quantity or condition of the remains is immaterial. If the cost is prohibitive then it must be the project that fails or more money must be found.
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Originally Posted by susie123
Anyway we are walking over our ancestors' bones unknowingly all the time in the form of Roman, Anglo Saxon etc cemeteries, plague pits and the like. Nobody seems to mind about that.
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To walk upon a grave unknowingly is one thing. But to know and to do it anyway speaks volumes about the kind of society that we have become.
Would you be as sanguine if it were your grandparents or parents graves that were at risk, Susie?