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Standing Room Only at New Cemetery
by IconoclasT at 8:14 am EDT, Apr 30, 2005

GREAT IDEA - About freakin time... Rest in peace, not granite. I personally loathe ornate and fancy mausoleums.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - It will be standing room only for those being buried at a new Australian cemetery that aims to provide cheap, environmentally friendly burials.

Australia's Victoria state government has approved plans for the cemetery at Darlington, 200 km (125 miles) southwest of the Victorian capital Melbourne, where corpses will be buried vertically in body bags -- instead of caskets -- on grazing land. "When you die, you are returned to the earth with a minimum of fuss and with no paraphernalia that would affect the environment," a spokesman for Palacom, which will establish the cemetery, told Australian Associated Press on Thursday.

"You're not burning 90 kg of gas in a crematorium and there's no ongoing maintenance costs."

He said burials would cost about A$1,000 ($781), with bodies held in a morgue in Melbourne and transported to the cemetery in batches of up to 15 in a bid to reduce costs. Animals would be allowed to graze on the land again once it was stable.

RE: Standing Room Only at New Cemetery
by zeugma at 10:33 am EDT, Apr 30, 2005

IconoclasT wrote:
] GREAT IDEA - About freakin time... Rest in peace, not granite.
] I personally loathe ornate and fancy mausoleums.
]
] CANBERRA (Reuters) - It will be standing room only for
] those being buried at a new Australian cemetery that aims to
] provide cheap, environmentally friendly burials.
]
] Australia's Victoria state government has approved plans for
] the cemetery at Darlington, 200 km (125 miles) southwest of
] the Victorian capital Melbourne, where corpses will be
] buried vertically in body bags -- instead of caskets -- on
] grazing land. "When you die, you are returned to the earth
] with a minimum of fuss and with no paraphernalia that would
] affect the environment," a spokesman for Palacom, which will
] establish the cemetery, told Australian Associated Press on
] Thursday.

Get Perpendicular.