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All aboard for watery funerals

Written by DeadGirl
Thursday, 30 March 2006
The River Soar, at Barrow-on-Soar in Leicestershire has been “blessed” with water from the sacred Ganges. As a result, the river has now become a centre for the ritual scattering of ashes with families travelling from as far a field as America, Italy, Germany and France and more than 30 funerals a week being carried out. The practise is traditional for Hindus, Sikhs and Jains who are using the Soar as an alternative to the Ganges in India. Vijay Lambachia, secretary of Loughborough’s Shree Ram Krishna Temple, said: In India, many of the crematoria are on the side of the rivers so ashes can be directly scattered. I would like to see a small temple or shrine on the banks of the Soar so we could do that here.” Local boat owner Frank Reeves has rigged up a special boat for the funerals decorated with pictures of the Indian gods, and a sound system to play appropriate funeral music. He even has a few model elephants if they are required. Mr Reeves also said that he was receiving enquires from Christian families looking to hold a river funeral. Charnwood borough councillor Amrat Bava of Loughborough said: “I think it is popular because it has been properly sanctioned by the water authorities.” The Environment Agency investigated the practise after controversy that it could pollute the waters, but concluded that it was safe, providing that only organic material entered the waterway. SOURCE: http://www.bnp.org.uk/reg_showarticle.php?contentID=741

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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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	you mean I'm still alive?

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“We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.”

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