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squeeeb · 10-09-2007, 05:10 PM

went to a council meeting last night in town, there was a discussion about a woman who wanted to buy up a piece of an old cemetery that had a tree in it and her yard blah blah blah. people didn't want to because the cemetery had graves of founders of the town, even though they were unmarked and no one knew exactly where they were. the cemetery is all filled up and no one can use it anymore, no new entrants. it got me thinking and brought me to the point of this thread.....

do you think cemeteries are a waste of space? i like parks and open fields and i abhor over development, but if a cemetery is all filled up with graves that are 100 or more years old, and the families of the people are no longer around, should you keep it? if so, why? i would at least keep it a cemetery and bury new people in it, but to have a few acres of land that no one can touch as a memorial to people that no one knows, for "historical records" sake...i just don't know. perhaps i am young and part of the "disposable" mindset, i don't know. i wonder what others think....

10-09-2007, 05:10 PM	#1 (permalink)
squeeeb part of the problem Location: hic et ubique	are old "historic" cemeteries a waste of space? went to a council meeting last night in town, there was a discussion about a woman who wanted to buy up a piece of an old cemetery that had a tree in it and her yard blah blah blah. people didn't want to because the cemetery had graves of founders of the town, even though they were unmarked and no one knew exactly where they were. the cemetery is all filled up and no one can use it anymore, no new entrants. it got me thinking and brought me to the point of this thread..... do you think cemeteries are a waste of space? i like parks and open fields and i abhor over development, but if a cemetery is all filled up with graves that are 100 or more years old, and the families of the people are no longer around, should you keep it? if so, why? i would at least keep it a cemetery and bury new people in it, but to have a few acres of land that no one can touch as a memorial to people that no one knows, for "historical records" sake...i just don't know. perhaps i am young and part of the "disposable" mindset, i don't know. i wonder what others think.... __________________ onward to mayhem!