Neighbours are calling on Richmond Council to pause its planned closure of the Shacklegate Lane allotments on October 1 to allow time for the rollout of alternative solutions to a shortage of burial space in the borough.

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[–] 6 points 1 month ago*

I will never understand the arrogance of insisting you take up a chunk space after you're dead for the rest of time

Burn me and lob me into the sea when I'm gone. I don't even want to be on someone's mantelpiece.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    Why are we still burying people? Creepy.

    Turn my ashes into cinder blocks, or mortar, or concrete, and build something nice with me, like a school, or a library, or a museum.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Would those be cemeteries? Grave yards only occur adjacent to a church...

    Either way, burying people is as much a waste of space as grass yards...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    Maybe require cremation or composting instead. No inefficient use of space for dead bodies. If a thing is unsustainable, a country should not engage in it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    can't people be buried elsewhere? London is big you know

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I'm surprised the city bothers with cemeteries at all. Just wrap me in one of those fungus cloths and plant a tree above me. At least then my body will contribute something to the next generation instead of just taking up space that nobody can do anything else with.

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