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Old 04-12-2011, 17:50   #72
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Originally Posted by susie123 View Post
The short answer is yes. Behind my house is a cemetery opened in 1874 and now closed. It is full to bursting with thousands of graves only some of which have memorials. There is no empty space. It is used every day by hundreds of people to get from A to B and many of them walk on the grass rather than keep to the tarmac path. Children play there and it is a welcome green space. As yet no one has complained about sacrilege and all the bodies are still sleeping peacefully. To me once someone is dead what happens to their body is immaterial. They are gone.
I absolutely agree, when they've gone they've gone.
We won't find any of the interred complaining about what's going on on top of their peaceful repose.
I just wonder though, they or their relatives paid for a monument or stone to be place as a memorial, at what time does that contract of respect for the dead and the cost for their trimmings become just so much paving stone?
Personally a quick whoomf up the chimney I'll be gone no problem, no grave for relatives to feel guilty about not tending, let them have the occasional thought about me in similar vain to which I consider the loved ones that went before me.
But, at which point do we remove and tarmac over the past only to say, "oops that was a bit previous of us wasn't it? Showed no real respect, still, we now have another area that no-one knows what to do with".
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