Graves to be re-used for burials

ASGROOMBRIDGE · Post by **ASGROOMBRIDGE** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:01 am

Recently I went to visit the grave of two children, Jessie and Mary McGowan and was told that as thier only living kin that I owned the plot. Perhaps I should be interned there when the good Lord calls so that their grave is kept intact.

The cemetery was in Cambuslang, built on a steep hillside, but a very peacefull place

What a horrible idea, I was shocked enough when I found the cemetery my great great grandmother was in had been dug up in Glasgow and blocks of flats built there.

So sad,

Audrey

Dennis · Post by **Dennis** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:30 am

Hi:),

I could be wrong but I thought I'd read somewhere that environmentalists were concerned about people's ashes being scattered on some of the natural landmarks of Scotland, particulary mountains where plant life would be eroded.

dennis

Post by **joette** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:24 pm

& are not crematoriums adding to Global warming-we have just enjoyed the wettest June EVER.?

Post by **AnneM** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:49 pm

I don't think this is completely straightforward. Those of us who live where there are plenty of wild open spaces feel that land is plentiful. However I was recently in the south of England and was as always very much aware of how many people there are and how little space.

Being a boring Scot I am always struck by just how populated that area is and also by the fact that at any one time around 70% of the female population is in a queue to use the ladies' toilet in a Roadchef off the M1!!!

I have the natural wish to be buried along with my family but then I wonder if that is not a wasteful use of land. After all useable land is not inifinite and increasingly people are finding it difficult to get housing.

Maybe we'll have to get better at living together so that the number of households stops expanding by the minute.

Anne

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:31 am

joette wrote:& are not crematoriums adding to Global warming-we have just enjoyed the wettest June EVER.?

Hi Joette, we here in Iceland have seldom seen weather like this June´s, with constant sun and temperatures in the 15s to 20 s. I had to put on sun block today before going underneath the car to repair it.
I´m afraid I do not consider cremation being climate threatening and have put in a very firm request. I also paid for thirty eight trees to be planted to offset the emissions from my car for this year but have not been told how many (trees) I need to plant for a proposed cremation.

The consolation is that they only fire up when a sizeable number of bods have accumulated, thus saving fuel and dodgy emissions. Bit of a relief. And I´m sure the dust is fairly organic, whether kept on the mantelshelf beside the wally dugs or scattered willy-nilly.

Guid hunting,

Thrall

P.S. Having just got in from work, having played amongst other decibel-rich Pink Floyd numbers "Waiting For The Worms", I still go with the warmer solution.

T.