News - City of London Cemetery

[crozier]

Still a bit shocked to hear tonight about City of London Cemetery's proposals to re-use graves. I have a number of relatives there, could anyone summarise what the authorities intend and when? I didn't manage to catch all that was said.

[Silvilocks]

The only report I can find is in yesterday's Gulf Times from Qatar for some reason   

Apparently there have been changes to the law which means graves can now be reused even if the remains within the grave have to be disturbed. I can't see this being at all popular - maybe  that's why it's so hard to find details.

The Gulf Times report is at http://www.rootschat.com/links/01xo/

Silvilocks   

[stanmapstone]

See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/06/ngrave106.xml

Stan

[acceber]

I heard on the radio that relatives can refuse for the graves to be re-used. So I would contact the cemetary/council to ensure your graves are not re-used.

acceber

[stanmapstone]

Permission to dig up the remains would be given only if there were no objections from descendants of the dead, if they can be tracked down.

Families who object to a relative's grave being re-used will be allowed to defer the exhumation for "at least" a generation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/06/ngrave106.xml
Stan