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Neighborhood cemetery still in shambles after Rita

Written by DeadGirl
Saturday, 25 February 2006
Lake Charles, LA by Rhonda Kitchens The Corps of Engineers is working across Southwest Louisiana, but it was skeletons unearthed in a North Lake Charles cemetery that has one crew member wanting to go the extra mile. "About two weeks ago we were coming through the area clearing debris off of the right of ways," Crew member Richard Hayes said. That's when Hayes says his crew came across two cemeteries at the corner of Shattuck and Katherine streets. "The one across the street is very well manicured and taken care of and to look at it and then to look over here its like a day and night difference," Hayes said. There are cups and beer bottles, and open graves. "I mean you can see exposed bones," Hayes said. Hayes says he was horrified as he walked along the decaying tombstones with a neighborhood resident Patrick Harrison. "He said that he has run people on several occasions to keep them out of the graves, from looting the graves from looting the graves from taking artifacts, bones and skeletons of that nature," Hayes said. "This tomb right here, the bottom of it, the top of it was all cracked up and sometimes the kids in the neighborhood would just come by and pick up the head and hold it up and play with it then I would come outside and tell them to put that back down you know and run them away," Harrison said. "It's a travesty that we can spend so much money to remove debris from the roadways but to allow something like this to go untouched," Hayes said. "I mean there's got to be some health concern there just to start with." Even more than that, Hayes says it's a disgrace. "If this was one of my loved ones laying here I would hope that someone would come along and at least make me noticed to give me some type of respect back to my grave," Hayes said. So Hayes says he's speaking out for those who can't speak for themselves, in hopes the community will come together to help our ancestors to rest in peace. http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4437034&nav=0nqx

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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

Taphophilia Facts

For as little as $1000, a Georgia firm will mix the ashes of a loved one with concrete and cast the deceased into an artificial reef to create habitat for endangered ocean species

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?

	earthen burial
	entombment
	cremation
	donation to science
	cyrogenically frozen
	you mean I'm still alive?

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“And thou, his Florence, to thy trust Receive and keep, Keep safe his dedicated dust, His sacred sleep. So shall thy lovers, come from far, Mix with thy name As morning-star with evening-star His faultless fame.”

A.C. Swinburne