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Funeral home law to come into effect late this year PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 01 April 2008
Peterborough, Canada - A new provincial law that will allow funeral homes to operate in cemeteries will come into effect by late 2008, Peterborough MPP Jeff Leal says. The Ministry of Government and Consumer Services is working with stakeholders to finalize regulations that will be included in the Funeral Burial and Cremation Services Act, Leal told The Examiner.

The bill has gone through three readings in the legislature. All that remains is for the proposed legislation to receive royal assent.

City council endorsed an official plan and zoning changes on Monday to allow Little Lake Cemetery Company to operate a funeral home at Highland Park Cemetery on Bensfort Road.

http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=967220

 
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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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According to the census bureau, about 2.4 million Americans died in 2000. About 6.5 million are expected to die in 2080.
 

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Have you decided on eternal repose?
 

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“Here was still another consequence of the mind's inability, when it ponders death, to picture something other than life.”

Marcel ProustFrom Albertine

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Depart my friends
wipe off your tears,
I must lie here
till Christ appears

 

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