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Related: About this forum"Alabama man fights to keep wife buried in front yard"
She had passed away before her husband buried her in the front yard.
http://news.yahoo.com/ala-man-fights-keep-wife-buried-front-yard-153303814.html
frogmarch
(12,160 posts)It reminds me of the farm family just outside of Hemingford, Nebraska (Stephen King used the town, which he called Hemingford Home, as settings for some of his novels).
Anyway, the elderly mom died smack dab in the middle of harvest time, so her husband and their grown kids stashed her body in the root cellar until harvest was over. Then they loaded her into the back of their truck and headed to their home state of Alabama to bury her on their old family homestead. They were stopped about 50 miles down the road and told they couldn't haul a body in the back of a pickup truck.
Death is so complicated nowadays.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Otherwise, I would side with digging her up.
MADem
(135,425 posts)If it becomes the family vacation home, well, whatever...but I think that's a bit anti-social, frankly, to be burying your dead all over the damn yard. Then again, I am a fan of FLAME ON--CREMATION which takes up no space, really.
Kaleva
(36,360 posts)Does 1 or more people buried in the front yard add to the value of the home or does it decrease it?
MADem
(135,425 posts)other famous "pilgrimage-worthy" person! A sports hero? It would have to be someone of Babe Ruth's stature!