Shocking Mooifontein cemetery

[lkswan747]

My neighbour has just sent me pictures of the state of grave sites at the Mooifontein cemetery in Kempton Park. I think the conditions at the cemetery are disgusting to say the least. Grave sites that are awaiting burial are filled with water and those sites where burial has already taken place are subsiding and the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality is doing nothing to address the situation.
Just because people are dead does not mean the cemetery has to look like a dumping ground. It is a sad state of affairs.

 

[Symphonized]

Is bad on how things are, no need to shout though.

Personally I would be cremated, being buried is a waste of time and waste of land space.

 

[Drifter]

Same story in Vanderbijl cemetery, never mind the vandalism as well.

 

[genetic]

Cremation should become the law

 

[ShaunSA]

Wtf still wants to be buried in this day and age?

 

[OCP]

Wtf still wants to be buried in this day and age?

AFAIK people of the Muslim faith have to be burried?

 

[ShaunSA]

AFAIK people of the Muslim faith have to be burried?

I did say in this day and age

 

[Jehosefat]

If you dig a hole and it rains it's going to fill up with water... not much you can do about that

 

[Marsie27]

Cremation should become the law

Or else the 'green burial' where you get buried in a shallow grave with no headstone. That's the way they used to do it in the UK a few hundred years ago. People would get buried wrapped in woollen cloth with no coffin and because graves were shallow the elements (and worms...) did their decomposition work and once they had reached the far side of the graveyard they could start again at the beginning. Much more eco-friendly, IMO. We heard a sermon about that in church in England many years ago. One sermon I have never forgotten.

 

[Milano]

Seems it is nationwide. The future in SA is private cemeteries.

 

[Wasabee!]

Why not use dead people and take them apart for science, parts, meat and muthi?

 

[satanboy]

Holes filled with water....in Cape Town we call those dams.

 

[Steamy Tom]

Holes filled with water....in Cape Town we call those dams.

well actually they are called lakes but sure bro whatever floats your goat

 

[Dan C]

Zombies

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

well actually they are called lakes but sure bro whatever floats your goat

When correcting someone, make sure you yourself are correct....

 

[Steamy Tom]

When correcting someone, make sure you yourself are correct....

Keh

 

[Splinter]

My neighbour has just sent me pictures of the state of grave sites at the Mooifontein cemetery in Kempton Park. I think the conditions at the cemetery are disgusting to say the least. Grave sites that are awaiting burial are filled with water and those sites where burial has already taken place are subsiding and the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality is doing nothing to address the situation.
Just because people are dead does not mean the cemetery has to look like a dumping ground. It is a sad state of affairs.

So you expect open burial sites to have umbrellas or something when it's raining?

And if there is no coffin, as the body decomposes the earth will sink down to take up the volume.

And, as in most things, you get what you pay for. Including funerals and burials.

 

[lkswan747]

If you dig a hole and it rains it's going to fill up with water... not much you can do about that

Some of the graves are filled and have subsided and are now half filled with water!

 

[Steamy Tom]

So you expect open burial sites to have umbrellas or something when it's raining?

And if there is no coffin, as the body decomposes the earth will sink down to take up the volume.

And, as in most things, you get what you pay for. Including funerals and burials.

wat, they are burying people with no coffins?

 

[Lupus]

We should all be cremated, default option.