NOT MANY GRAVE YARDS ???

[greenstiles]

Come on, I'm not the only one am I ?............CONSIDER this.......... people born 125 years (whole population of the world) bar a couple of Japanese are dead now........and 125 years before that and so on and so ............not everybody is cremated...lots are burried.......so where are all the graves man ???? it's freaking me out :shock: :shock: :shock: there should be bodies everywhere......?????

 

[Easy_Rider]

They turn graves every few generations except the Victorians who bought their plots outright, that practice has now been stopped. So in answer to your question each grave is used more than once and cremation is quite popular too.

 

[kaiser]

I read that theres more people alive today than has ever died :shock: I find it hard to believe but I thought I'd throw that in there!

 

[Tad]

There's probably a whole shed load in your back garden that you don't know about.

 

[Tallpaul]

I read that theres more people alive today than has ever died :shock: I find it hard to believe but I thought I'd throw that in there!

You're right to be sceptical, it's nowhere near being true.

 

[kaiser]

Sounds good though

 

[TheGreenRabbit]

under the patio !

 

[velomaniac]

TallPaul wrote:

kaiser wrote:
I read that theres more people alive today than has ever died I find it hard to believe but I thought I'd throw that in there!


You're right to be sceptical, it's nowhere near being true

It would be true if humans had been capable of exponential growth ie doubling in number for each generation. Unfortunately/fortunately wars, famine, pestilence and the fact that loads of us just dont breed (thats me :roll: ) kinda spoils the hypothesis.

In medeival times graves were used until the flesh had rotted from the bones which were then dug up and stacked in Ossaries. Thus many bodies passed through small parish graveyards. You could probably grow prizewinning veg in a graveyard if you were allowed

 

[greenstiles]

All the people in the street down the road from us are not allowed to be burried in the local church yard opposite their them.............................................why ?














Because their not DEAD yet !!!!

 

[alanf]

our village has two! the one around the church is full so we have an over flow graveyard on the outskirts of the village, well, we actually have three! but the church was moved :? taken down and dragged by hand carts to its present location years ago, but the grave stones and graves in it's original plot are still there and are in the garden of the farm house that replaced the church

and yes graves are/were used several times, 6' is the minimum depth! my mate did his apprenticeship with the parks and gardens dept of the local council and had to do a stint on cemetary's! he is responsible for dropping people in the wrong plots! :shock: it was a big place and was layed out in a grid, numbers and letters and he got mixed up one day! so when they turned up to dig someone up for another autopsy and found the wrong coffin in the plot :shock: he was promtly tranfered to roundabouts.... of which this city has a lot, so he was kept out of trouble for a long time