his demise. Not only the edifice was razed to the ground, but also his bones were scattered. Then there is the possibility of the grave site becoming a tourist spot, especially if some celebrity connected with the cinema or the movies is buried there. Thus the cremated ashes of Walt Disney were buried in a secret spot in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, while Humphrey Bogart and Mary Pickford were laid to rest in private gated gardens closed to public.
Multiple Burials
The wish to be buried in tha same plot by married couples or family members gave rise to what is known as multiple burials. It is done either by placing the coffins or urns side by side or by placing one on top of the other. Thought of in advance, such an arrangement required the first coffin to be placed at a greater depth than otherwise normal. The second coffin can there after be buried without disturbing the first. In fact, in Australia two or three burials are permitted in a single plot, depending on the minimum depth of the water table of the area. The caskets placed subsequently are separated by a thin layer of earth, and the grave is deeper than the traditional six feet.
Societies or groups perpetrating mass killing or genocide take recourse to mass burials to dispose of the very large number of bodies lying around. Nonetheless, in many instances, mass burial is the only practical measure available to deal with an overwhelmingly large number of bodies resulting from a natural disaster or an epidemic or an accident or a terrorist attack. With the genetic testing methods presently available in developed societies, mass burials can now be avoided; but that is not possible when the remains are not identified with a degree
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