The concept is that you get a spot on a graveyard permanently as a muslim, but it is custom to give back the spot when noone is alive, who remembered the deceased relative, so usually in the third or fourth generation.
But why wouldnt a graveyard last “forever”? We have many church graveyards that can be tracked back to early medieval times, so easily a thousand years, in Germany.
I’m no expert on Islam but the people who started their own graveyard had an issue with bodies being exhumed eventually.
But why wouldnt a graveyard last “forever”?
Populations have exploded in the last 100-150 years, especially in densely populated cities. You can’t bury tens of millions of people and keep them in the ground for long.
Cremations were quite normal in many parts around the world, actuslly. In Europe, Christian influences caused a ban on them, but for ages cremations were the way to go. They make more sense anyway: people who cremate their dead are less likely to catch diseases from rotting corpses than people who handle put the (diseased) body back in the ground.
The concept is that you get a spot on a graveyard permanently as a muslim, but it is custom to give back the spot when noone is alive, who remembered the deceased relative, so usually in the third or fourth generation.
But why wouldnt a graveyard last “forever”? We have many church graveyards that can be tracked back to early medieval times, so easily a thousand years, in Germany.
I’m no expert on Islam but the people who started their own graveyard had an issue with bodies being exhumed eventually.
Populations have exploded in the last 100-150 years, especially in densely populated cities. You can’t bury tens of millions of people and keep them in the ground for long.
and hell even a hundred years ago graveyards in cities started becoming problematically full, that’s literally why cremations was invented.
Cremations were quite normal in many parts around the world, actuslly. In Europe, Christian influences caused a ban on them, but for ages cremations were the way to go. They make more sense anyway: people who cremate their dead are less likely to catch diseases from rotting corpses than people who handle put the (diseased) body back in the ground.
Just bury them together with nuclear waste. Two birds sealed under one stone and the radiation might give them superpowers in the afterlife
He’s still alive, he’s 75 but he’s still going strong.