Well played, subby.

There's a Polish plan crash joke in here somewhere.

Eventually we're going to run out of room anyways so why not double up? I mean it's not like the ones already there will care.

I don't get it. To make more money, they dug up graves and put new people in the old graves. But they dug new graves for the people that they dug up. So why not just put people where they were putting the caskets they dug up. It would be a whole lot less work...

There are actually five "i's" in Iilliinois, subby.

T-Luv: I don't get it. To make more money, they dug up graves and put new people in the old graves. But they dug new graves for the people that they dug up. So why not just put people where they were putting the caskets they dug up. It would be a whole lot less work...

Could be it's like real-estate; location, location location. People don't want to bury Grandma next to the parking lot.

/dunno the specifics in this case
//my family's all about the cremation anyway.

Shades of John Donne:

"When my grave is broken up again,
Some second guest to entertain..."

So, who do you think they voted for?

voters in a cemetery? who do they think they are, Jersey City?

Biggest waste of prime real estate, country clubs and cemetery's

+1 Subby

Did you hear the reel drag singing as I clicked? If not, your Miracle Ear needs new batteries.

8-D

*Golf Clap* Bravo subby, Bravo

Vtimlin: Biggest waste of prime real estate, country clubs and cemetery's

Not to mention wrongly placed and unnecessary apostrophes.

FTFA - "We are trying to give a heads-up to families"...

heh, heads-up.

Can we blame a political party and move on?

I never understood the problem.

It seems in every case I've seen of a cemetery reusing grave sites they take the oldest in the lot, cremate or gang up with others, and rebury.

There is only so much area in a given location suitable for a plot of graves, right? If this kind of thing didn't happen (and I'm guessing it actually happens more than everyone thinks) people from Chicago would need to eventually travel a state or more away to bury their dead.

I can assure you the corpses couldn't possibly care less. Besides all that they are a waste of resources anyway. It takes much less time, energy, and manpower to cremate than to bury.

For something more amusing, my grandmother recently passed away (no, that's not the amusing part... dick) but the funeral director had to repeat several times and fully ensure that we knew cremation was an irreversible process... apparently some people are unaware of this caveat.

T-Luv: I don't get it. To make more money, they dug up graves and put new people in the old graves. But they dug new graves for the people that they dug up. So why not just put people where they were putting the caskets they dug up. It would be a whole lot less work...

Maybe because you can cram 10 dried up crispy corpses into one grave. Think of it like a Cemetery Defragmentation. The result is a much sleeker and more efficient facility.

T-Luv: I don't get it. To make more money, they dug up graves and put new people in the old graves. But they dug new graves for the people that they dug up. So why not just put people where they were putting the caskets they dug up. It would be a whole lot less work...

I guess you failed at reading comprehension in school, althought the article is a little difficult to deciver it is not impossible. This cemetary apparently was closed for good long time and just reacently reopened. The earliest burials were some time in the 1870's or 1880's and in the 200+ years since then the record have been lost or destroyed.

So what is happening is they are attempting to bury corpses in plots that they think are empty and accidently dig up a different corpse. They are then moveing the original occupant to a different grave and putting the new occupant in that spot.

Most of the caskets they are digging up are from the 1930's and the dead folk can't be identified. Where they can be identified and the family tracked down the family is informed of the problem.

See it is not that hard to understand if you have some ability to comprehend what you are reading, then again Fark is the place for those who are too stupid to have those skills.

windex: but the funeral director had to repeat several times and fully ensure that we knew cremation was an irreversible process... apparently some people are unaware of this caveat.

apparently some people are astoundingly stupid?

Sounds like they're gonna need somebody to clean up.

/took the headstones and left the bodies?

Slaves2Darkness: The earliest burials were some time in the 1870's or 1880's and in the 200+ years since then the record have been lost or destroyed.

Who were you calling stupid again?

Thorazine: Can we blame a political party and move on?

...those lousy whigs are at it again...

MDGeist: Eventually we're going to run out of room anyways so why not double up? I mean it's not like the ones already there will care.

I chuckled a bit at your post, even though I shouldn't have.

/Wife's parents are buried there.

Ikam: schattenteufel: When there is no more room in Illinois, the dead shall walk the Earth.

I'm fairly certain they already ride the CTA with me every day to work.

The Blue and Red Line passengers nod approvingly.

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Benjimin_Dover: Maybe because you can cram 10 dried up crispy corpses into one grave. Think of it like a Cemetery Defragmentation. The result is a much sleeker and more efficient facility.

We need a picture of the catacombs in Paris, stat.

FTFM

Here's a picture of another graveyard consolidation project.

FTFA:
"the shoddy record keeping - and in some cases records that had literally disintegrated - made it impossible to say how many corpses were dug up or the identities of all those whose remains were moved"

""I think there are parts of the cemetery (where) when we excavate the grave (and) there's no indication anyone is buried there," he explained, adding that three burials are scheduled for Friday and about three more the next day."

About three more the next day, give or take a few here and there? I think they may run into this same problem in the future.

Rann Xerox:
/Wife's parents are buried there.

So you're saying you didn't expect them to open it again and find the bodies?

Rann Xerox: MDGeist: Eventually we're going to run out of room anyways so why not double up? I mean it's not like the ones already there will care.

I chuckled a bit at your post, even though I shouldn't have.

/Wife's parents are buried there.

Are you SURE?

And Subby the sad part is I would bet most are still voting.

windex: For something more amusing, my grandmother recently passed away (no, that's not the amusing part... dick)

That cracked me up. Thanks for the laugh!

Keystone Copout: Rann Xerox:
/Wife's parents are buried there.

So you're saying you didn't expect them to open it again and find the bodies?

The way that I understand it, the grave schemers reused the graves that were very old. My wife's parents died in the early 80's. Her brother went out there and made sure that the graves had not been touched.

My wife is kind of ticked off that Carolyn Towns, the mastermind of the plot (no pun intended), was not put in general population during her stay in jail.

In short: my wife, her brother and thousands of others would dearly love to do an Ezekiel 25:17 on Towns and those that helped her.

Brad Colbert's M-4: So, who do you think they voted for?

I think we all know the answer to that question

dittybopper /Obscure?

I normally tell people who have never seen "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things" that by end of the first few minutes they will begin to root for the zombies to kill the dirty hippies.
Hard to find but one of my favorite bad zombie movies.

Slaves2Darkness: T-Luv: I don't get it. To make more money, they dug up graves and put new people in the old graves. But they dug new graves for the people that they dug up. So why not just put people where they were putting the caskets they dug up. It would be a whole lot less work...

I guess you failed at reading comprehension in school, althought the article is a little difficult to deciver it is not impossible. This cemetary apparently was closed for good long time and just reacently reopened. The earliest burials were some time in the 1870's or 1880's and in the 200+ years since then the record have been lost or destroyed.

/

math wasn't your best subject in school was it?

Can we have one town meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?