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NavezganeChrome t1_iz0x0hf wrote

Reply to comment by Good-Tear2785 in My son hasn't eaten in 6 months. Or so I thought. by hippofucker45

Graveyards are explicitly dedicated to the dead, which is why they cost as much as they do. Burying people wherever one wants to has a nasty habit of others stumbling across the bodies at a later date, more often than not associated with foul play.

Especially so for something like a back yard, presuming the property will eventually be resold and someone else has to deal with corpses in the ground causing things unprecedented.

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RagicalUnicorn t1_iz1homk wrote

Explicitly dedicated 'currently'. You would be amazed at how many graveyards have been dug up and rezoned especially over the last couple hundred years with the burst of population and growth. Suddenly that out of the way shady grove filled with headstones is smack bang in the middle of a growing city and occupying space vitally required, just to home bones no one has visited in generations.

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tanoren t1_iz1wr8y wrote

Yeah there's a small historic cemetery in my home state of Ohio that sits right next to the entry of a major theme park.

Hell, in the same home state there's a lot of rural homes with family graveyards on property. One even right next to the road.

Happens all the time.

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iCoeur285 t1_j1gjdao wrote

One of my professors used a method called GPR to locate old coffins in the ground. He should us the results in class and it was super interesting. One of my coworkers actually just did a similar project.

This is also why I want to donate my body to a body farm. My coffin won’t be in the way somewhere people want to develop on, or my urn gets stored away in a random attic. Just let nature do it’s thing, and have some students study my decomposition.

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