Cemetery being turned into a dog park?!

[UnmotivatedSlacker]

What's the big deal? The dead don't need the land, so you might as well put it to some actual use.

What if some of the dead were YOUR loved ones? the ones you truly miss and respected? the ones you actually knew quite well and cared for? Would you still think it's ok that they let dogs sh!t on the grave of your wife? With her still IN it? I personally wouldn't want that, use the land but REMOVE THE BODIES FIRST.

I still wouldn't care. The body isn't important to me. The memories are though. Also you can go ahead and type shit dude. It's just another word.

 

[enzilewulf]

What's the big deal? The dead don't need the land, so you might as well put it to some actual use.

What if some of the dead were YOUR loved ones? the ones you truly miss and respected? the ones you actually knew quite well and cared for? Would you still think it's ok that they let dogs sh!t on the grave of your wife? With her still IN it? I personally wouldn't want that, use the land but REMOVE THE BODIES FIRST.

My dad died when I was six. They turned it into a park, People bring their dogs. Its the best sight ever to see kids smile when your down looking at the graves. Now it doesn't sound to right. They should block off the part with the graves. My dads in a wall but thats what they did at my cemetery. Beautifulest and most peaceful place ever.

 

[Terminate421]

Welp, their in for a poltergeist

 

[tiredinnuendo]

I just keep hearing that scene from Poltergeist run through my head.


- J

 

[Gennadios]

The human race is on track to having 12 billion members. Cemetaries are a selfish and irresponsible relic, we barely have space for the living.

Better to cremate and give the ashes to relatives if they care about the body.

If the only point of contention is the fact that the grave belongs to an army hero, fence it off and drop a monument. The rest of the graves are over 100 years old, I doubt family is an issue.

 

[Kragg]

Don't dogs like to dig stuff up?

I haven't seen to many dogs digging something up from six feet under.

So what? An old cemetery in my town was turned into a public swimming pool.
The Guys is dead, he wont care.

Hopefully in your case they removed the bodies first lol

after x amount of time they dig up old bodies and incinerate them, like 2 generations afaik, or as long as you bought the plot, doesnt work for family crypts or soldiers graves i think

This is a cultural difference. The US doesn't have quite the lack of land that other countries do. So it became traditional for the purchase of a cemetery plot to be permanent. Usually the land would be purchased, then the plots sold, the money would pay back the owner of the land and include a tidy profit and the rest of the money would be held in trust to pay for the maintenance of the grounds. While in Europe the promise of a permanent burial was never explicit.

It's that cultural difference that is the result of the outrage by the veterans. It's not overly uncommon for cemeteries to be turned into something else, but the bodies are usually moved first, with the new owner of the land covering the expense.

makes sence, thx for the enlightenment good sir

 

[Elephant Walker19]

Well since the veitnam war is part of the reason I was born I'm ok with this.

 

[michael_ab]

this shit is banannas. why can't people just walk their dogs on a sidewalk or in a front lawn like normal people. dogs don't need entire parks.

....? you have never owned a BIG dog have you? they need room to run, and citys dont have that space. that is why dog parks exist

EDIT: like labrador - great dain big

 

[everfreeDragon]

I have absolutely no problem with that. The dead won't care, they have no feelings or thoughts and don't bother trying to get me with that whole loved ones buried there thing. I still wouldn't care the body is not what makes a person who they are it's what they do and how they act. those things are not what is buried so I have no care what happens to the land.

 

[Kiefer13]

As much as I can understand why some people might be in an uproar about this, the vast majority of me just thinks "So what?". You can bang on all day about how it is "disrespectful" and all that, but I honestly don't think the people being "disrespected" are going to care. Being corpses and all.

Cemeteries are a pretty old fashioned and silly idea anyway, in my opinion. You're essentially just using up land to preserve the rotting remains of people for the sake of sentimentality alone. When I die, I just want them to take any organs that are still of some potential use and cremate the rest.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

What's the big deal? The dead don't need the land, so you might as well put it to some actual use.

What if some of the dead were YOUR loved ones? the ones you truly miss and respected? the ones you actually knew quite well and cared for? Would you still think it's ok that they let dogs sh!t on the grave of your wife? With her still IN it? I personally wouldn't want that, use the land but REMOVE THE BODIES FIRST.

I still wouldn't care. The body isn't important to me. The memories are though. Also you can go ahead and type shit dude. It's just another word.

I would still want the bodies to be left with dignity, dead or not. And it's not about what the dead want obviously, its what they WOULD have wanted, I just think that this should be respected. If MY mom died, and we buried her in a cemetery and people want to change it into a park and I SEE a dog shitting on her resting place, I WILL get angry because that was my MOM!!!! I know she's dead but that doesn't change the fact that your'e shitting on her! LEAVE MY MOM ALONE! HOW DARE YOU!

That's how I would have felt, but let me make it clearer.
Losing a loved one is tragic and people will mourn it and be very sad about it. Don't expect THEM to think it's perfectly fine to build a toilet over them for people to crap in (just an example).

I'm fine with them using the land to make a park but just so long as they at least inform the families and move the bodies. I wouldn't want people defiling the corpse of my beloved wife or son.

Remember, death is death. NO respawn and no restart. Dead is DEAD, GONE , away from society and never to enjoy life or interacting with other people again, never again feel anything, never again have interactions of any kind whatsoever. You have been around but now society will continue without you, you are literally left in the dust to rot and be ignored as nothing special and be forgotten, FOREVER. The least we can do if not show respect to the ones that have died, but to show some respect to the families still mourning their passing.

 

[MasterV]

My thoughts are that the doggies are gonna have soooo much fun digging up dead bodies!

 

[The Night Shade]

They should move the bodies just for respect

 

[SimuLord]

The bones come pre-buried. Although as someone pointed out, show me a dog that digs six feet for a bone and I'll show you an overachiever!

 

[Devil's Due]

I believe the real reason why is because it's an Army Hero, someone who earned the nations highest medal for acts of bravery and valor, only to be crapped on by dogs. Now, I believe cemetery's are taking up a lot of space, but I'd prefer if someone was a hero to at least have some sort of statue or a small plague in the middle of the park giving a small detail of who they are and what they did, then I wouldn't mind the park as long as the hero isn't just forgotten. If they did that, then I'd be fine with the grounds turning into a dog park.

 

[dariuskyne]

http://www.ludd.luth.se/~silver_p/NewSedlec/index.htm

now that is a nice way to bury people! make 'em into art!

actually the whole backstory and whatnot is very interesting (for those who are interested in funeary type stuff) I am definately going to visit this place when I go on vacation in prauge, sometime... maybe...

 

[SirDerick]

That's it, I want my body to be buried on the dark side of the moon.

If they turn that into a dog park, at least it will be an AWESOME dog park.

 

[Unknower]

"We are treating him pretty darn well, except for the poop,"

Quote of the day.

 

[SirDerick]

I just keep hearing that scene from Poltergeist run through my head.


- J

Ok, that made me laugh so hard.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

Now it's a haunted dog park. I'm personally against this, it is disgraceful to the dead. As much as I hate humans and prefer all animals in general, I still find this to be what is called...a "dick move".