Posted on 10/19/2021 9:22:55 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A Rhode Island woman’s search for her relative’s displaced gravesite led to the discovery of nearly 1,000 people buried beneath a local highway and an unmarked mass grave containing hundreds of bodies.
Both discoveries were connected to state institution cemeteries in Cranston, where more than 5,000 of Rhode Island’s poor, sick or mentally ill residents were buried between 1875 and 1953.
...worried her relative was buried beneath the state highway
According to the R.I. Department of Transportation, tens of thousands of people drive on Route 37 every day.
Malcolm said the plaque indicating where the mass grave is located was stolen roughly five years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at wgntv.com ...
—”I told my kids to book the Alaskan Cruise and put me on the iceberg.”
I like it!
But concerned my wife may want to push up the timing?
you can get a plain casket from the Trappist monks. My brother had both of our parents buried in these caskets made my the monks - I believe they are located in Iowa.
This is why I want to be cremated!
Many are, especially in larger metropolitan areas. Small town and rural areas, not at all. In fact, breaking into the ‘funeral biz’ in a smaller market with it’s long-established family-run funeral home is a fools errand.
The funeral culture has been morphing significantly in the past generation, with a real move away from the old-style ‘show your wealth’ send-offs of the past.
My kids and future grandkids are getting small portions of ashes and GPS coordinates for each. Their task is to go and scatter them at these interesting places I’d like them to see (that I didn’t have a chance to take them to).
I’m coming back to haunt every sonofabitch that ever done me wrong in my lifetime. I’ll make Jacob Marley sound like a church mouse.
—”I’m coming back to haunt every sonofabitch that ever done me wrong in my lifetime.”
Wow, I didn’t know you could do that sort of thing?
I don’t have much of a list and I already outlived most of them.
Is there any recourse against the predeceased?
Asking for a friend...
Dig them up and haunt them for the rest of their natural death.
Yep. Similar to American Blacks of today demanding reparations for their known/unknown ancestors of the 17-1800s who were slaves. ....Most have no proof of ancestor slaves.
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