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THE ashes of hundreds of people are being disinterred without the knowledge of surviving relatives. Springvale Botanical Cemetery, one of the state's largest, has scattered some remains at "an unrecorded location" in its grounds. The cemetery has warned families of people interred there on 25-year leases to contact the cemetery to ensure remains were not scattered without their knowledge. Perpetual memorials can be arranged but fees vary and can exceed $1000.
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Saturday, 12 January 2008 |
There are plan s to lay artificial turf instead of natural lawn on a bare row at the cemetery. This has upset local woman Julie Elowry who buried her husband there six months ago. She was given a choice of whether to have him buried with marble over the top or with lawn and, as her husband loved nature, she chose lawn. According to the council’s parks and gardens supervisor, Steven Wilsdon, the decision was made to use artificial turf to become more water-wise.
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Saturday, 12 January 2008 |
ROME (CNS) -- Although the Catholic Church would prefer that those who die be buried in the ground, cremation is acceptable and, in certain circumstances, the church in Italy will not object to a person's ashes being scattered, reported the daily Catholic newspaper Avvenire.
The Italian bishops released their new translation of Catholic funeral rites in November, for the first time adding prayers to be recited at a crematorium and for a funeral celebrated in the presence of the deceased's ashes rather than a body.
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