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Judge to allow moving of graves

Written by DeadGirl
Monday, 07 August 2006
August 01, 2006 By DAVID A. VALLETTE GREENFIELD - A probate court judge has allowed the exhumation of 53 graves in Green River Cemetery that are in danger of sliding into the river. The order came after no relatives of the deceased filed an objection to the plan by yesterday's 10 a.m. deadline. Alan H. Blanker, president of the Green River Cemetery Company, said yesterday he will convene a meeting of the company's Board of Directors to consider next steps, particularly how to fund the grave relocations, which could cost as much as $200,000. The remains will be moved to another area of the cemetery because they are at the edge of a steep bank that is eroding into the river. Among those buried in the threatened area is William B. Washburn, who was Massachusetts governor from 1872 to 1874. The Board of Health had denied the cemetery company's request for a comprehensive exhumation permit. Board members said that without a court order, it would have to follow state law that requires a separate process for each person buried. The process would include researching records to identify all next of kin, and getting permission from relatives to exhume and rebury the remains. Blanker said the process would likely take too much time, and some remains could be lost to the river while officials waited for the research to be done and families contacted. "We may not have a week left," he said, adding that bank erosion had accelerated. First Justice Geoffrey A. Wilson of Franklin Probate and Family Court, immediately after yesterday's 10 a.m. deadline for relatives to object issued an order to the health board to issue a "universal exhume and burial permit" to the cemetery. "Nobody filed a formal complaint by 10 o'clock," said Mark I. Berson, lawyer for the cemetery company. Blanker said that the exhumation was approved by the only known relatives, two descendants of Washburn. Records have not turned up relatives for anyone else in the threatened area. The burials date to 1820. http://www.masslive.com/hampfrank/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-5/115441918713390.xml&coll=1

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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