Cemeteries

[Hatch]

Considering the number of people that have lived and died, why isn't there thousands of cemeteries all over the place?

 

Whats the deal, do they just bury people on top of others these days.

 

Is there some sort of time limit on how long you have your own space six foot under for?

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

Considering the number of people that have lived and died, why isn't there thousands of cemeteries all over the place?

 

Whats the deal, do they just bury people on top of others these days.

 

Is there some sort of time limit on how long you have your own space six foot under for?

 

100 years I believe if the space is needed.

[Dog]

I want to be buried at sea like an angry pirate.

Edited 12 March, 2010 by Dog

[Princess]

Maybe cremation is the thing to have?

[Dog]

Maybe cremation is the thing to have?

 

Or crucifixion? :heart:

[SNSUN]

Cryogenically freeze me, then, when Radiation from various nuclear wars has turned everyone into an ugly freak, unfreeze me. It'd be swell to go from being the ugliest bloke in the world to the most handsome...

[RedAndWhite91]

I don't want to be buried in case I'm not dead and I wake up. I don't want to be cremated in case I wake up in the box, on fire.

 

I guess I'll just have to build a grand mausoleum and have my body on public display forever, like Lenin.

[timebomb]

I guess I'll just have to build a grand mausoleum and have my body on public display forever, like Lenin.

 

A bit like this place perhaps?

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/113351

[RedAndWhite91]

A bit like this place perhaps?

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/113351

 

Yeaaah spot on. Something like that will do just fine.

[Jillyanne]

I don't want to be buried in case I'm not dead and I wake up. I don't want to be cremated in case I wake up in the box, on fire.

 

I guess I'll just have to build a grand mausoleum and have my body on public display forever, like Lenin.

 

Do they really burn the box/coffin or is that just a myth?

[RedAndWhite91]

Do they really burn the box/coffin or is that just a myth?

 

Can't say I've ever been in the situation to answer that I'm afraid.

[Arizona]

I want to be burried under Fratton Park, assuming it isn't an affordable housing complex by the time I die. I'm gonna curse them good 'n' proper.

[for_heaven's_Saint]

A dreaded sunny day, so let's go where we're happy and I meet you at the cemetry gates.

[hamster]

I don't want to be buried in case I'm not dead and I wake up.

 

I know a little about this rRnR young fella me lad.

 

In times gone by when the country was suffering epedemics it was a common fear that people might be buried alive. So you are not alone in that one

 

Anyway, some people worried for there loved ones fate couldn;t risk having the diseased body hanging about in the vain hope so gave them up to the 'barrow'. When the loved one was put in their coffin the family would tie a piece of string around their hand and pass it through a hole in the coffin lid and attach it to a tiny bell hung above the grave.

 

Hope you're keeping up here?

 

Anyway, apparently this is where we get the adage 'Saved By The Bell'.

 

And that my friend is what in the modern World we call a F A C T.

 

 

 

Do they really burn the box/coffin or is that just a myth?

 

Jilly, this is actually something that mrs hamster asked (and witnessed) when doing her nurse training. She spent a day at the Crematorium, a day at ther morgue and a day at an undertakers!

 

Yes, they do cremate the whole coffin and body at the same time. In fact you will find that unless the family specifically request them the handles fixtures etc are not even made of metal, they are some sort of tough plastic. The wood is also composite and even those lovely pine boxes are just basically chipboard/MDF.

 

Bodies are not necesarily cremated as soon as the curtains close either, the average 'time' is about 80 minutes and at Southampton they have four 'ovens'. After the remains have cooled down they are sifted and any heavier metals like hip replacements, screws and plates etc are discarded. Jewellery like rings necklaces etc are you will be pleased to hear left with the other ashes along with gold fillings.

 

It is a very respectful process and I hope this does not read as being too morbid, I can assure you that I would never treat this matter lightly and hoe the info is taken with the respect that it is written.

 

I personally could never do that kind of work but thankfully we have people with the mettle and decorum to do it.

 

Respectfully

hamster

[for_heaven's_Saint]

I know a little about this rRnR young fella me lad.

 

In times gone by when the country was suffering epedemics it was a common fear that people might be buried alive. So you are not alone in that one

 

Anyway, some people worried for there loved ones fate couldn;t risk having the diseased body hanging about in the vain hope so gave them up to the 'barrow'. When the loved one was put in their coffin the family would tie a piece of string around their hand and pass it through a hole in the coffin lid and attach it to a tiny bell hung above the grave.

 

Hope you're keeping up here?

 

Anyway, apparently this is where we get the adage 'Saved By The Bell'.

 

Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure QI confirmed that as an urban myth!

 

There are however now coffins that come with built in cameras, so not oly can you see your loved ones slowly decay, if they are still alive, you'll be able to see and dig them out.

[hamster]

Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure QI confirmed that as an urban myth!

 

There are however now coffins that come with built in cameras, so not oly can you see your loved ones slowly decay, if they are still alive, you'll be able to see and dig them out.

 

Not disagreeing with the font that is Steven Fry but I am equally confident that my teachers at school knew their stuff too. QI uses many sources for research but at the end of the day it is down to some spotty herbert sat in front of a computer to decide what the facts are. My history teacher, Mrs Herbert, actually lived through the black death.

[for_heaven's_Saint]

Not disagreeing with the font that is Steven Fry but I am equally confident that my teachers at school knew their stuff too. QI uses many sources for research but at the end of the day it is down to some spotty herbert sat in front of a computer to decide what the facts are. My history teacher, Mrs Herbert, actually lived through the black death.

 

Haha, she sounds like she was made of stern stuff, so I won't argue with her! Stephen Fry recently made a video saying that my friend was a prat, which he isn't, so maybe other things he's said aren't true.

[hamster]

We have to remember that QI is an entertainment prog not an educational one.

 

Trust me fhs, I just checked with Wiki and can confirm that all I have writted is true (according to some anonymous person somewhere on the web), so there!

[RedAndWhite91]

I know a little about this rRnR young fella me lad.

 

In times gone by when the country was suffering epedemics it was a common fear that people might be buried alive. So you are not alone in that one

 

Anyway, some people worried for there loved ones fate couldn;t risk having the diseased body hanging about in the vain hope so gave them up to the 'barrow'. When the loved one was put in their coffin the family would tie a piece of string around their hand and pass it through a hole in the coffin lid and attach it to a tiny bell hung above the grave.

 

Hope you're keeping up here?

 

Anyway, apparently this is where we get the adage 'Saved By The Bell'.

 

And that my friend is what in the modern World we call a F A C T.

 

Cheers hamster, I already knew that though However, if I do get buried then I plan to have one of these contraptions, 50% it being a novelty item, and 50% it being deadly serious... I wouldn't have a tiny bell though, I'd have a massive air raid siren which could be heard for miles. You know, just incase...

[mack rill]

Cheers hamster, I already knew that though However, if I do get buried then I plan to have one of these contraptions, 50% it being a novelty item, and 50% it being deadly serious... I wouldn't have a tiny bell though, I'd have a massive air raid siren which could be heard for miles. You know, just incase...

 

Uncle was an undertaker, If you don't know the proses of embalming then take it from me Hammy and redandwhite, You will not be ringing that little Bell,HTH:D

[hamster]

Uncle was an undertaker, If you don't know the proses of embalming then take it from me Hammy and redandwhite, You will not be ringing that little Bell,HTH:D

 

Bells eh? For whom do they toll?

[buctootim]

Mebbe not everyone was buried in a cemetary. Some just had their heads chopped off and were buried in a field.

 

 

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7058921.ece

[mack rill]

Bells eh? For whom do they toll?

 

Hmmm We have one body thats not Even buried yet,,,,,And hes already ringing his fuxing Bell;)