A cemetery thread.

[sabang]

just thought I would start a cemetery thread, I bet you are dying to contribute.

[gonelive]

^not yet

[Thetyim]

Thailand's largest cementery is located in Saraburi

[ChiangMai noon]

funny enough, my daughter is doing a cemetary project at school and has mailed me some really cool graveyard pics.

I'll post them later I think.

[sabang]

Largest Cemetery in the World Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, Germany is the largest cemetery, covering an area of 400 ha (990 acres), with 982,117 burials and 413,589 cremations (figures ending 1996). It has been in continuous use since 1877.

[Dalton]

Very interesting stuff, it really inspire me to dig deep in myself, to find something to add to this amazing thread...

[DrAndy]

yeah, I gotta dig up some dirt and get fired up

[jizzybloke]

Dead boring in there you know

[Dalton]

^ Yep full of dead people

[Looper]

The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out,
In your stomach and out your mouth,
The ones that crawl in are lean and thin,
The ones that crawl out are fat and stout,
Be merry my friends, be merry......

[Silent Orchestra]

11 of 100

[Ivor Biggun]

Thailand's largest cementery is located in Saraburi

So Saraburi is the dead center of Thailand ?

[Propagator]

Looking round my local cemetery today came across this new headstone

[Ivor Biggun]

Largest Cemetery in the World Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, Germany is the largest cemetery, covering an area of 400 ha (990 acres), with 982,117 burials and 413,589 cremations (figures ending 1996). It has been in continuous use since 1877.

I bet people are dying to get into it ?
Sorry the Leo are going down well tonight.

[Propagator]

^^Did also find two others of a similar nature but devoted to the Australian and Kiwi rugby teams. Must have been placed there by KW and LC

[Marmite the Dog]

I used to do cemetery maintenance in the UK. Good money and a nice job.

[Thetyim]

Did you know that Hayter used to make a special lawnmower designed to fit in between grave stones and cut close down the left side so that no edging would be needed ?

[Looper]

Guess it would be narrow enough to fit in between my girlfrinds legs then. Her muff is out of control again. I hate having to spend so long on the edging to smarten things up so the Hayter sounds like the ticket

[November Rain]

Back to cemeteries rather than Looper's GF's pubes (which I'm sure most would prefer to think about)

Did you know that according to superstition (UK) the first person buried in a new graveyard must become the spiritual caretaker/guardian of the cemetery and all laid to rest in it?

Or that it's bad luck to follow a hearse with your eyes as it passes?

[Silent Orchestra]

That spiritual caretaker should get the sack.

Anger over plan to dig up 350,000 bodies in historic London cemetery for Muslim burial site | the Daily Mail

[Dougal]

Brookwood in Surrey is the largest cemetery in the UK at 500 acres and has a 40 acre military section.

The cemetery was opened to provide burial plots for the population of London as London cemetries were full to overflowing. Until the second world war the cemetery had two stations and special excursion trains were run from a seperate platform attached to Waterloo station. The stations are now closed but remnants of the platforms are still visible and the tracks have become footpaths.

The cemetery is split into various denominations and sections i.e. Muslims, Anglicans and so on. There are also sections devoted to groups as diverse as actors and hotel commisionaires, Chelsea Pensioners are also buried there. The Rosacrutian section features some very elaborate tombs.

As London expanded in the late 19th century and congregations decreased, many churches gave up their burial grounds and the inmates were disinterred and reburied at Brookwood in mass graves.

Until he died this year, the owner of the cemetery was Ramadan Guney, who was Asil Nadir's cousin amd put up the bail money that enabled him to flee the country.

Dodi was briefly buried there until his father received permission to move his body to his private estate nearby.

The military section is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commision and has sections devoted to UK and the Commonwealth countries plus Americans, Poles, Belgians, Italians, French, Czechs, a few Turks and even some Germans.

It's well worth a visit.

[sabang]

The Chinese like to be buried with a nice sea view, if they can afford it. They also like big vulgar family mausoleums and stuff.

Pok Fu Lam cemetery in Hong Kong offers these attributes, and is much sought after as a place to be interred and eaten by worms. It is not cheap.

The Chinese tend to be a superstitious bunch, and it is not considered at all auspicious to be looking over the resting places of the dead, and their nasty ghosts.

Which is why apartments in Pok Fu Lam overlooking the cemetery offer million dollar sea views at relatively bargain prices. Many Gweilo (falang) take advantage of this fact, as do several non-superstitious Chinese. My ex-wife, a HK Chinese barrister, would not even consider the propositon of living there. Shame really, such quiet neighbours.

It is a luxury to be actually buried in HK, because land is extremely expensive. Most are cremated. The average burial plot your bones occupy for seven years, after which you are disinterred and make way for the next Mr. Wong.

[sabang]

This thread is becoming very Grave.

[Jet Gorgon]

Pok Fu Lam cemetery in Hong Kong

I lived next door and my bedroom view was the cemetery. Best neighbours I ever had. Not a peep out of them. A few residents used to visit my flat every week or so, leaving a fragrance similar to attar of roses (nobody believed me til I had pals over for brunch and the perfume suddenly wafted through the flat). Did have one demented spirit who left a smell like a sewer (nope, not my garbage bin).

SO, thanks for that UK gravesite article. Take the muslims back to their home countries for burial, I say. They got a day to get there.

[sabang]

^ Nice around there JG. Shame i never had the chance- higher authority prevailed.