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If approved by councilors, the plan will be posted for public comment and a final plan will be presented to councilors in May.
City Councilor Fleur Fitzsimmons told Newshub that she understood the proposed plan “is not for everyone.”
“It is not something that I feel comfortable doing for my family, but there has been interest from others [Wellington] residents “.
She says that temporary ownership of a grave is “common” in other parts of the world, but should be introduced “with real sensitivity and care.” It also wouldn’t affect existing graves, he said.
Countries like Singapore, Germany and Belgium offer public graves for free, but only for the first 20 years or so, it reports. The Guardian.
After that period of time, families can pay to conserve them or the graves are recycled, with more recent residents moving further to the ground or to another site, often a mass grave.
It may sound morbid, but sharing a final resting place with other dead people is actually quite traditional. Throughout human history, an estimated 108 billion people have lived, and of course, have died. And they have to go somewhere.
The oldest known “cemetery” is a cave in Morocco. Known as Taforalt or Grotte des Pigeons, it contains the remains of at least 34 human skeletons from the Upper Paleolithic between 15,100 and 14,000 years ago.
In Europe, Bronze Age burial mounds were reused during the Anno Domini period, and in the 18th century Parisians built the Catacombs, sprawling tunnels under the city, filled with bones, to house their dead.
