[Closed] How dead do you need to be?

I guess there is also a question of genetics in this too. When talking about how connected people actually are to the past.

Example my parents are each 50% genetically connected to me personally. Go back 3 generations to your great grand parents and they are only 12.5% each genetically relevant to you(takes me back to the 1950-70s when they died, before I was born). Go back 10 generations and you are talking around the 1700s give or take for most people. But the genetic relationship is really only something like 0.1% per "relative" at that level, I mean you've potentially got 1024 ancestors in that particular level alone (I personally believe the term "relative" is getting extremely tenuous at this point, I've got some lines going back to the 1500s on some of my branches, means not much to me tbh, far as i'm concerned these are common ancestors.).

Point I'm really getting at is the further you go back, the people we've buried become more of a common history rather than a personal history. So really at that point it's more about cultural norms than any individual considerations.

Me personally, I don’t really care tbh, give the body to schools

I think they prefer those 'computers for schools' vouchers. Although it would be an interesting conversation as to who got to take the School Cadaver home for the holidays.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/elmer-mccurdy

😆 was kinda expecting that tbh.

I know – go to repository for archeology and cheesemaking at present. Maybe we should cross the streams and start a thread about artisan cave aged bog butter.

In an unlikely confluence of threads, before I worked in NPD in cheese and dairy (mainly cheddar and processed, but a bit of work on spreads as well), I worked in a butter factory. While I worked in the cheese place, I did my only GCSE.............in archaeology. (Every one of my GCSEs is A*, unlike my O levels..) I'm not claiming to be an authority on anything, though. It's all a long time ago and was just an evening class GCSE that interested me and I didn't take further. 😀

How did this not get the new TOTW?

We own a small graveyard

Is there no topic this place has knowledge of. I mean how common is owning a graveyard?

There are four in my village. Old Church, new church, overflow graveyard for new church, and a house built on the site of another old church which is no longer there but which has a graveyard as the garden.
I don't know if that one mentioned above is my 'around the corner neighbour' but if not there's at least two.
Actually, you do see quite a lot if churches being converted into houses. I wonder what they do with the crypts?