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Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Sheffield, UK A MAN whose father's cremated remains are buried in a South Yorkshire graveyard has failed in a legal bid to have them moved to a family plot in another cemetery. The late Arthur Mallinder's widow expressed the dying wish that her remains should lie with her husband's in Killamarsh Cemetery, in a family grave where many previous generations are buried. But Mr Mallinder was cremated and his remains interred in Aston Cemetery. Their son sought permission from a top ecclesiastical judge to have the moved. Judge David McClean QC, Chancellor of the Diocese of Sheffield, refused the plea. He ruled that the case did not justify an exception to the principle that a Christian burial is final. He said: "As is made clear to all those considering petitioning for exhumation, there are legal principles which chancellors have to apply. "Courts have held that once a body or ashes have been interred in consecrated ground, whether in a churchyard or in a consecrated section of a municipal cemetery, there should be no disturbance of the remains save for good and proper reason. " Courts should apply the straightforward principle that a faculty for exhumation will only be exceptionally granted." He said it was for the petitioner to satisfy the court that there were special circumstances. It was a well-established principle that "a change of mind as to the place of burial on the part of relatives or others responsible for the internment should not be treated as an acceptable ground for authorising exhumation". While exceptions can be made in family grave cases, he said that it should not be assumed that whenever the possibility of a family grave is raised an exhumation will be granted. 21 January 2006 http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=1323019

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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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