http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Noir+et+Blanc/For-Rent-P1010490-w.jpg.html
No stacking here - if no one pays before the date the city has the
bones taken out and stacked with others in a specific location.
If you're curious you might want to visit the catacombes in Paris that
hold about 6,000,000 squeletons some dating back to the 17th century.
http://www.catacombes.paris.fr/
Philippe
Le 6 janv. 14 à 22:33, Paul Braun a écrit :
> On 1/6/14 14:56 : , Chris Crawford wrote:
>> Graves in the non-Jewish cemetery get RE-USED if the family stops
>> paying?
>> Wow. In the US, graves are not reused and families do not have to pay
>> maintenance fees. That's for all cemeteries, not just Jewish ones.
>>
>> So, how is a grave reused? Do they pull out the body, and replace
>> it with
>> a new one, or do they stack more coffins on top of the old ones?
>>
> While I'm aware of the practice (I had one friend who's father is
> buried
> somewhere in Eastern Europe, and she had to pay to keep him to
> himself),
> I've never been made aware of the actual procedure. I think it's more
> of a stacking thing.
>
> Ken's right - we're used to "one plot, one body, forever and ever,
> Amen"
> (unless a really wealthy devloper pays the right amount of bribe money
> to a commissioner to get a cemetery relocated for a new condo
> development). But we do have vast amounts of unused land here as
> well.
>
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