Campaigners in south London issue plea to stop allotments being turned into graveyard (www.standard.co.uk)

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Neighbours are calling on Richmond Council to pause its planned closure of the Shacklegate Lane allotments on October 1 to allow time for the rollout of alternative solutions to a shortage of burial space in the borough.

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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why are we still burying people? Creepy.

Turn my ashes into cinder blocks, or mortar, or concrete, and build something nice with me, like a school, or a library, or a museum.

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