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Camden New Journal - Letters to the Editor
Published: 3 January 2008
 
There is sufficient space in our parks for centuries of burials

• YOUR lead story highlighting the shortage of graves (Cemeteries ‘full up in 10 years’, December 27) calls for a simple solution.
This is not the first London grave crisis. Until trains arrived, London was in a constant state of anxiety about burials.
Trains enabled the dead to be taken to the open countryside of the Home Counties.
Later the advent of industrial scale cremation transformed the situation.
Today GPS beckons. With this system of precise positioning information anybody can be located without a headstone or marker beneath any park, heath, or any public open space such as playing fields.
Camden has space sufficient of burials for centuries to come.
The revenue from such a solution would safeguard the care and maintenance of open spaces forever.
Never again would innocent and free traditional Heath activities like pond swimming be threatened with charges – the revenue from the dead would pay for everything in such areas.
Few have ever been put off by taking recreation in scores of London squares beneath which the dead lie to this day. In a green era this is the obvious solution.
Incidentally, the pundits say solitary cremation is so energy intensive it may have to abandoned.
We have all to revise our dead certainties.
PETER CUMING
Talacre Road, NW5


Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.


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