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Anna Nicole Smith To Be Buried in the Bahamas

admin — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:21:54 +0000

It’s been settled. With all the craze this week, it has finally been decided that Anna Nicole Smith will be buried beside her son, Daniel, at Lakeview Memorial Gardens and Mausoleums in the Bahamas.
Lakeview Memorial is one of two private cemeteries on New Providence island and contains the remains of between 1500-2000 people.

After Daniel’s death five months ago, Smith purchased three additional plots – for herself, her lawyer Howard K. Stern and her infant daughter Dannielynn.

Before Anna Nicole, the cemetery claimed only “comon people of the Bahamas.” Daniel Smith’s grave was unmarked, but there’s talk now about how the cemetery will become a tourist spot once the former playmate is buried there.

Source: Canada.com

Bodies from Green River Cemetery in MA To Be Exhumed and Reburied

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:17:47 +0000

Thanks to some strong winds that uprooted trees and washed away several yards of soil back in March, about 50 bodies are in danger of sliding 200 feet into the Green River below.
According to Massachusetts state law, to exhume a body, you need a copy of the death certificate and approval from the deceased’s family. However, since most of the bodies date to the 1800s, a Probate Court judge waived those requirements. Family members and other possible objectors have until July 31 to register a complaint before the bodies will be reburied.

Getting approval was the easy part. How to actually move the bodies is proving more difficult. Cemetery officials have hired surveyors and contractors to figure out the best way to move the graves, but they are concerned that the drop off is so unstable, that it may give way if people try to unearth the bodies.

Source: LiveScience

Lebanon 17th Century Cemetery Mistaken For Modern Mass Grave

admin — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:55:45 +0000

When security forces unearthed 25 decomposed bodies in the village of Anjar in Lebanon, anti-Syrian politicians feared the worst – that it was evidence of atrocities committed while the Syrian military occupied Lebanon.
Syrian troops entered Lebanon in 1976 to suppress a civil war. They maintained control of the area until tension built around the February killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri and left in April 2005. The bodies were found in December.

After an investigation by Lebanon’s public prosecutor, Saeed Mirza, the mass grave was discovered to be an old cemetery, with bodies dating from 50 years ago to 350 years.

Source: “Mass grave” was 17th-century cemetery

The UK Approves of Double Burials

admin — Tue, 30 May 2006 16:18:39 +0000

The idea of burying two bodies in one grave may seem taboo here in the US, but it has finally gained political approval in the UK where burial space is increasingly limited.
Harriet Harman, the minister responsible for cemeteries, told the Independent

“We have now got to make some decisions that have been put off and put off. They have been put off because people do not want to make the decision about whether you do what is described as ‘lift and deepen’.

“This is where you use space – I am phrasing this delicately – in a vertical as well as a horizontal way. It’s the big political taboo, isn’t it, and it has become quite complex with all the different cultural approaches to death.”

The process involves opening untended graves older than 75 years old, transferring their remains to a smaller container and burying it deeper, and then burying another coffin in its original space.