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    Why do undertakers always bury people "six feet under?" Why not seven or eight feet?

    Question #37318. Asked by quiz man. (Aug 09 03 6:03 AM)


    mibmob

    http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/bulletin_board/19/messages/757.html is useful:
    Perhaps to allow several burials on one site. The common practice in Britain until the early Victorian times was to reuse graves without always removing the previous occupant(s)! Church grave yards became the site of numerous scattered bones. As a result the law was changed to allow burials to take place in non-consecrated ground - the Victorian public cemetery was born.

    Aug 09 03, 9:43 AM
    Roget

    It was thought that it was necessary to prevent the spread of plague from the corpses. This site has some interesting information http://starchronicle.awna.com/Edge/issues/edge030606/edge_030606_16a012.pdf

    Aug 10 03, 7:31 AM


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