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Council start 'adopt a gravestone' program

19/07/09 - 0 comments

Exeter City Council have started a new initiative to raise money for their already stretched budget. They are asking for members of the public to sponsor old gravestones.

For as little as 10p a day citizens can know that they are helping an underprivileged grave that may have been left to decay by the rest of society.

Each month you will receive a letter from your gravestone letting you know how it's getting on and every year you'll receive a picture on the anniversary of it's erection.

Alternate plans for making the most of the available space for graves in Exeter, lovingly dubbed 'Rack'em and pack'em' will involve the country's first multi-storey graveyard. This involves digging a 15 foot deep grave which is filled with bodies with a small top-layer of soil between each until the grave is filled.

By using this revolutionary method, Exeter City Council think they can get nearly 10 times the amount of bodies in to the same space previously used.

Alternatively you can arrange for your body to be cremated when you die ensuring any lingering swine flu is destroyed once and for all.

We want to be scattered from the top of the old Debenhams building on a busy shopping day. Just at the last minute I want someone to shout 'What's that up there' so everyone looks up and gets a bit of me in their eye. That'll teach you all for stopping in the middle of town for no reason.

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