> On 2011-06-12 15:23 , Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
> > Why are they being trashed?
> 
> i recall reading that in Paris most cemeteries require an annual fee,
> and that when the family stops paying, the plot becomes available for
> someone else; perhaps that's it

In Britain they do it when the cemetery gets full, or the headstones are so
worn and flaked as to be illegible. They often prop them up against the wall
and leave them there, or make new bits of wall with them. There's a lot of
that in Greenwich.

B


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