Running Out Of Graves?

The U.K. is having to deal with too many deaths and not enough burial grounds!
So, what are they gonna do about it???
According to The Times, for the first time since the early Victorian era, the country is allowing the "disturbance of human remains in burial grounds" in order to deal with a shortage of graves.
Beginning next year, local authorities across England will be allowed to exhume and then rebury several bodies deeper into the ground.
The goal is to create enough space for more burials on top of the old sites.
In some instances, new inscriptions will be added to the existing headstone and "damaged or insignificant headstones would be removed and replaced with only the new name."
The decision to create new space came as a result of London and other urban areas running short on burial grounds.
Bummer!
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