geezer466 Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 It will all come in due course.... Local funeral services and then all the bodies transported to a central point for the ultimate in recycling... I bet the locals were as appalled as you lot currently are in the 17/18th Century when the shortage of burial space in London and other cities brought about the cremation acts. Back then it is was a big learning curve from burying your loved ones to sending them up a chimney but lack of space meant it had to happen.Today cremation is seen is run of the mill. Using human remains for recycling in this context is not as far fetched as you might think it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XswampyX Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Better than being dug up after 3 years and then thrown down a digestive pit. Bloody religion. Source :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34920068 Cemeteries in Greek cities are so overcrowded that bodies are often only kept in the ground for three years. Then families have to pay for exhumation - and for the bones to be kept in a building known as an ossuary. But many cannot afford to pay even for this limited degree of dignity in death. Katerina Kitsiou stands weeping by her father's grave in Thessaloniki's main cemetery. She has come to watch as her father Christodoulos is exhumed. He was buried seven years ago, but his children cannot pay for his grave any longer. "We paid for an extra four years to keep him there but we cannot afford it any more," says Katerina. What ? "It is lucky this one has fully decomposed. I was a bit worried you might have to see something nasty," he says as he begins gathering up the human remains. Yeah, lucky us.... If the relatives don't show up for an exhumation or stop paying rent at the ossuary the bones are thrown into something called the "digestive pit", a vast underground mass grave. Here there is no ceremony, as the gravedigger tosses the remains on top of tens of thousands of others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14276/Hindu-Priests-arrested-for-cannibalism Ultimate recycling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidg Posted November 30, 2015 Author Share Posted November 30, 2015 Source :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34920068 Yeah, lucky us.... Lucky indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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