Does any body know?

Question

my collegue at work said that when a grave yard is full the last person to have been buried must be buried for 100 years then they are allowed to build on it,is this correct?,what do you think?

Answer 1

Never heard of it, but I think this would be a local thing.

I am editing this post that I made earlier:

I once was looking through a very old cemetery in South Carolina (looking for the oldest marker), and found a new plot that had fresh dirt and a plastic marker (no stone yet). It had recently rained and so the earth on the grave was packed down, and weird enough, some bones were sticking out. Now this cemetery was right next to a road, so I thought it was old roadkill turned up when the plot was filled. But then I found decorative metal hardware that included handles and hinges. Needless to say, I was freaked out. Had the cemetery dug up one old grave to bury someone else in the spot? I looked around and found more bones (splintered so unrecogizable) and decided to call around to find out what the law was. According to a historical society in South Carolina that maintains very old family plots and important historical burial sites, it is ok to dig one grave on top of another if it is an accident. SC is a very old state, and some cemeteries have no record over who might be buried where. If the workers dig through a grave by accident, hopefully they notice and then the remains will be buried elsewhere. But if there are signs that they tried to hide the previous plot owner, then there is trouble. I told them where the plot was, but I don't know what happened after that.

Answer 2

This really depends on state, local laws, and traditions.

In New Orleans, they ran out of room years ago. What they do is stack corpses in tombs which act as ovens because of the intense heat built up in that climate. The heat vaporizes the bones & dead matter, so that after a while the cemetery staff just open it up and shovel more corpses in there.

In Japan, cemeteries are being created in vertical space, "slots" stacked on each other. Some cemeteries are even squeezed in spaces such as by highway junctions and in warehouse districts where there are empty lots.

Cremation is looking more and more attractive. That's my personal choice. I'm writing into my will to have my ashes scattered over the Guadalquivir River in Seville, Spain.

Answer 3

I lived in front of a cemetery when I was younger. It have monuments (boulders with metal plates--not stones) dating back to Civil War times. That was never built over.
I don't know the laws, maybe they were just not interested in my cemetery land. But that does sound kind of creepy.

Answer 4

This law varies from place to place, and are probably regulated by the local council or public health (who wants to dig in their garden and find someones femur?)

Living in London, you will notice that quite a few places were once burial sites. For example Bunhilll fields or Paddington gardens.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Burial_and_Burial_Acts

Here is a site about it, but this would probably apply to the UK.

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Answer 5

i heard a lot of horror syorys about this in one state the body were thowen in the back yard and two they bury them on top of others 4or 5 to a hole stacking them on top of each other//

Answer 6

These rules vary depending on local laws and regulations. This practice however is not highly unusual.

Answer 7

concept of ignorant man. No truth about it.
jtm

Answer 8

never heard of that.

Answer 9

not sure, it could be true