Stoke Mandeville: HS2 to move 3,000 bodies from medieval churchyard

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-56981338

that's a lot of moving....

[Jim Webster]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-56981338

that's a lot of moving....

I suspect they're lucky the last known burial is over 100 years old. Following normally CofE rules you can probably get to renew the grave spaces just using a faculty. But you don't normally remove anybody, just stick the next ones in

[Imperial Dave]

as long as they dont use a JCB.....

[Jim Webster]

Surprising how many modern grave diggers use a mini digger 

[Imperial Dave]

sans bodies though 

[Jim Webster]

sans bodies though 

I've dug holes for ashes (not full graves) in one of our local churchyards and I'd guess that it's been completely used three times. It's more a thin human soup than discrete graves

[Imperial Dave]

sans bodies though 

I've dug holes for ashes (not full graves) in one of our local churchyards and I'd guess that it's been completely used three times. It's more a thin human soup than discrete graves

[Dangun]

Mandatory cremation.

[Jim Webster]

Mandatory cremation.

Do you know how much trouble we have with people dumping ashes all over the place   
Given the amounts of heavy metals, plastics etc they should probably be disposed off as dangerous waste

[Imperial Dave]

thats right....bury it....no wait....

[Jim Webster]

thats right....bury it....no wait....

The advantage is that if it's disposed of in a church yard, the ground is unlikely to be returned to agriculture any time soon. So we keep them out of the food chain 

[Imperial Dave]

ish......run off is not your friend lol

[Jim Webster]

ish......run off is not your friend lol

The regulations for the disposal of animal carcasses are far stricter than those for the burying of people!

[Imperial Dave]

ish......run off is not your friend lol

The regulations for the disposal of animal carcasses are far stricter than those for the burying of people!

same as for animal feed versus human feed! 

[Jim Webster]

ish......run off is not your friend lol

The regulations for the disposal of animal carcasses are far stricter than those for the burying of people!

same as for animal feed versus human feed! 

I know at one point the dairy hygiene regulations were stricter and more tightly policed that the regulations pertaining to cafes etc
I genuinely don't know if that is still true