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When people die they should be buried standing up rather than lying down? My Dad always thought this was an excellent idea as it would take up a lot less space

Wonderful idea, Ann. am leaving my instructions as I type........lol...BC XX

Ann :)

It would certainly save space :) Ive always said I want to be buried standing up and with my head out the top. Alongside me I want a recorded message which is set off by a sensor. It would boom out with something like " Oi you didnt visit me when I was alive so why bother now, Bog Off "

Sorry my sense of humour im afraid :):)

AofGG - Does that mean that Australians would be buried upside-down? Not very comfortable, do you think?

I like that one Colin - and to all the people who turn up at your funeral when you hadn't seen them for years!!!

lol
aint that typical
why do they do that i wonder

and where did wearing black come from

My feet would ache....

No I'm being cremated and my ashes scattered at sea - so I wont be anyway up

Well we dont sleep standing up do we ?
so sod standing up for the eternal sleep lol

Ray

Or is that what it means to be,,,,

DEAD ON YA FEET!!!!!!!!

How about doing what I saw on the telly once.. you get buried as normal, then after a certain amount of time dug up again, your bones cleaned up and reburied in a much smaller box???

http://www.grantham.karoo.net/paul/graves/labilliere.htm


This one is upside down

my friend's husband died on holiday in Heraklion. they don't bury people in Greece - what they do is entomb them and leave their bodies until such time as only the bones are left - then they unseal the tomb and remove the bones to be buried. In my friend's case she went back for the opening of the tomb but it was discovered he was still not just bones, so they had to seal it up again and she went back later.

Just think of the poor gravediggers! Digging down 6 feet is enough, but to go down another 6 feet would be amazing.

As the wife of an old undertaker's son, who spent time in churchyards with a bottle of pop to keep him hydrated in the 1960s, earning pocket money - it is a long way down!

Elisabeth

Hi Elizabeth :):)

It certainly would be, digging for us six footers :):)

I hope you are keeping well :):)

I spent 4 years grave digging so in truth you would have to dig the hole 6ft by 6ft square to enable you to bend in the hole to dig that deep,,,,rather a waste of time and effort.

Ray

Hello Colin!

Budgie,

A relative of ours wanted to be cremated and the ashes spread around her beautiful roses. That was done, but in later years when her quaint cottage was bought by others, the garden was divided, so she is now under a very smart new house built on her divided garden.

Elisabeth

Oh dear - my grave will be just off the Needles in the Isle of Wight - as I'm ex Navy I hope that the comittal will be from a warship. Have done a few in my days and they were always very proper and respectful apart from the time we dropped the ashes in the wardroom they fell out of the urn so were hoovered up and the hoover bag committed to the deep

They could erect graves underwater with watertight coffins and bury us under the sea.

Yes, a lot of our deceased ancestors are now resting under Checkout No 10 in Sainsburys or the jigsaw puzzle section of Toys R Us. I dread to go in those places at night. All those ghosts lol.

Yet 100 years ago or whenever they were alive, it was just a nice churchyard in a quiet town or village or even an old London burial ground.

Ben