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Father discovers son's coffin just 6 inches underground

Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 21 June 2006
Associated Press PORTAGE, Ind. - A father visiting the grave of his 11-month-old son was devastated to discover the boy's coffin was only 6 inches underground. "It's like a nightmare," Steven Cunningham said Tuesday as a grounds crew exhumed and reburied his son who drowned in a bathtub in March. "He should be at peace right now." Cunningham was at the grave site Monday at Heritage Cemetery, when he tripped and his knee landed on the ground. "That's when I heard the 'thump,'" Cunningham said. Cunningham grabbed a stick and poked it into the ground. It didn't go far. Then he got a hand shovel. "One scoop, and there was the coffin," Cunningham said. John Evans, the owner of the cemetery and nearby Edmonds & Evans Funeral Home, said he doesn't know why the coffin was so shallow. He said the coffin could have moved when the ground settled. Or the position of Noah's grave, between his parents' predetermined plots, could have caused the trouble. Either way, he said, the problem had to be corrected. The policy at his funeral home is to leave 18 inches of dirt above caskets. Cunningham doesn't blame the funeral home, but he was upset with the person who dug the grave. After the coffin was reburied Tuesday, Cunningham was told there would be about 20 inches of soil between the grass and the top of his son's coffin. Cunningham was satisfied. "It's his final resting place. It took a couple months, but he got there." http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/local/14869451.htm

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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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Vermont is home to one Presidential gravesite, Calvin Coolidge.

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“But cypresses and cedars, the zephyrs impregnate by pure fragrances, perennial green leaning over the urns for eternal memory, and precious vases to collect the votive tears.”

from 'Sepolcri' by Ugo Foscolo