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Written by DeadGirl
Thursday, 02 June 2005
May 27, 2005 National Cemetery feeling a bit cramped By MICHAEL NEWSOM SUN HERALD BILOXI The director of the Biloxi National Cemetery said Wednesday it may run out of graves by 2015. Amanda Rhodes, director of the cemetery which provides burial space to veterans who have been honorably discharged, said the cemetery added 5,000 graves about a year and a half ago. Currently, about 14,500 of the 20,000 plots available are being used. Of the 54 acres, 12 acres are still available for burial. Rhodes said 950 burial spaces and monuments to cremated veterans are placed each year. She said the ratio of burials to cremation sites is about 73 percent burial to 27 percent cremation. She said of the 5,000 new plots, about 1,700 are covered with pre-placed crypts so that a husband and wife can be buried in the same grave. The spouses of veterans as well as dependent children are also eligible to be buried in the cemetery. Rhodes said the cemetery faces some challenges in the future with the rising number of aging veterans. "We figure that 660,000 veterans die each year," Rhodes said. "We figure with the large amount of retirees in our area, we hope that they have room for our veterans and spouses to be buried. "If not, I want to say that new national cemeteries are going up all the time," Rhodes said. "There are 120 listed throughout the United States, more being built each year." Rhodes said Mississippi has two other National Cemeteries, one in Natchez and one in Corinth. She said there also are National Cemeteries in Zachary, La., (Port Hudson) and there is a National Cemetery in Pensacola at the Naval Station (Barrancas National Cemetery). The cemetery could expand, if it is able to buy land around the site, near Keesler Air Force Base and the Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital, she said. She acknowledged that the space around the cemetery also could be bought by the VA Hospital, which she said is rapidly growing, leaving the cemetery without the land it would need. Rhodes also denied that the cemetery stacks corpses in the same grave. Another misconception, she said, is that cemetery officials bury veterans head-to-toe with each other. She said the graves are situated so the bodies are buried shoulder-to-shoulder. Rhodes said the only eligibility requirements for burial in the cemetery are that someone has to have been honorably discharged, but if they entered the military after September of 1980, they must have served two years of active duty. President Lincoln signed legislation in 1862 to create national cemeteries. Biloxi National Cemetery was established in March 1934. http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/11749503.htm

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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