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['andersom']

I had a preference for disappearing in bog. Get myself on pause in the carbon cycle, for a couple of thousand years at least. No headstones, or anything else. Don't think it is allowed here.
And, I am not ready for it yet either.

[bodie]

You can only buy a grave here for ninety five years.

Churchyards give you a lot more time, but of course they were all full up a long time ago.

Cremation makes sense.

Staying alive is my plan, though.

  So what happens when the 95 years are up?    And does that apply to ancient graves, or just newer ones?

It applies to all Cemetery's that are run by the council.  After 95 years you are guppy chow.  They will dig your grave with a digger, add some top soil and start again.     At one time most graves were for 250 years, but they stopped doing that in the 1950's when they realised there wouldn't be enough room in England for the dead and the living!

Graves belonging to a church are as rare as rocking horse shit.  Many old churches have honoured agreements made hundreds of years ago and will just leave graves alone.  I doubt if it is possible to purchase a churchyard grave now, but if you could you will be  granted a lot longer but will have to pay a lot more.

Exhumations are different too, between cemetery's and church yards.  Much harder to exhume a body from a churchyard. Maybe it is because it is consecrated ground.

[Queen Victoria]

In New Orleans proper burial above ground in private family tombs is the norm.  There is a "Potter's field" for the poor or unidentified remains.  Cremation has become accepted here, but is not awfully commonplace. 

["couldbecousin"]

I had a preference for disappearing in bog. Get myself on pause in the carbon cycle, for a couple of thousand years at least. No headstones, or anything else. Don't think it is allowed here.
And, I am not ready for it yet either.

  You'd have to be discreet about the location.  Now that bog bodies have been found, someone might try to find you. 

[skyblue1]

Baby calf



Human calf

["couldbecousin"]

  I cannot wear stylish knee-high boots because of my thick and powerful calf muscles. 

[lutra]

^ Heehee, but I can.







Um, wait?!

[TheoK]

"Fine" wine for the Romans was, maybe contrary to popular belief, not red but white.

[TheoK]

The name "Byzantine Empire" was never used by its inhabitants. They called their country (in Greek) "Roman Kingdom" or "Roman Empire" and themselves "Romans". The "Byzantine Empire" also had a flag, unlike the Roman Empire, that only had a coat of arms.

[TheoK]

The Allied lied to the Germans just after the capitulation, probably to keep them in check. They said that Germany would keep the borders of 1937. This they never meant.

[lutra]

Choice of thread? Wwwuuhh..

(butz.. ) Yesterday's afternoon I 'babysat' the three kiddos of my sister. We went for, in a park nearby, and played miniature golf (what we here call midget golf, btw) and after that we played some dominoes and I baked all of us pancakes a little later. It was a good/nice/cosy afternoon.. and their dad (sis' hub) picked them up at half past eight again.

[TheoK]

Almost all Romans drank wine, although the quality differed a lot. The finest Roman wine was Falerner, grown in the Falernian fields in the northwestern part of Campania. It could be more than hundred years old.

Most people drank their wine diluted, although the rich often added honey and spices to the wine to make it really sweet and tasty. This wine was called mulsum.

A simpler wine was posca. It wasn't stored very long and was not sweetened. This was the wine that soldiers drank.

The simplest wine was lora. This was more like vinegar than wine and was what slaves and the really poor drank.

[TheoK]

The Romans had very little furniture. Even for rich people it was unusual to have a chair with a back on it.

The most common Roman piece of furniture was the lectus, something like a combined chaise longue and a bed.

["couldbecousin"]

  ^ And how were the vomitoria furnished?   

[TheoK]

I told you that was a myth