Under German law, families lease grave sites for a specific period of time, usually from 15 to 30 years. And, if a family is unable or unavailable to renew the lease, the grave’s contents are removed and the grave site reverts to state ownership and may be reused. My Oma is buried in Heidelberg and their fees for a 30 year lease are €1,800.
I don't have a problem with this really, but why isn't this a state funded thing? I don't understand this concept as I was born in America and didn't know my parents had been paying for nearly a dozen family members graves in Aachen and Heidelberg for decades. Now it's become my responsibility.
So, is there any way to bypass this without my relatives being exhumed and disposed of like garbage?
It is not state funded asshole. You should have used a meme flag.
Ryan Brooks
Why would the tax payer pay for the grave of your grandmother you filthy communist? You could have had just as well have her cremated...
Also, I live in Heidelberg, were is she buried? Want me to take care of your problems? That might cost around €1,799.
Jaxon Morris
I know it's not state funded, it should be though. Here you buy a burial plot which includes an extra fee, which covers the cost of maintaining the cemetery as a whole (in perpetuity). Why are you just throwing people's bodies everywhere? What the fuck are you doing with exhumed people?
Julian Ortiz
Now now my family is from west of the wall. It should be a state funded thing, like everything else in Germany. Seems to be kike-ish in nature to prey upon the living relatives of the dead, and use corpses as a means of extortion.
Sebastian James
You are paying for a service that somebody takes care of the grave. And of course your family is from the west, the other side doesn't as much about communism than the western cucks who never experienced it.
Christian Roberts
So according to you, every citizen who ever lived should have a free grave site for ever and ever on state land. Cool sense of entitlement, I guess.
Usually these leases also entail the upkeep of the site so it's not overgrown with weeds etc.
Benjamin Phillips
State owned/operated multifaith cemeteries would create thousands and thousands of jobs. What's the problem with everyone having a resting place, and lesser skilled people having reliable jobs? The current system is clearly broken if they're regularly exhuming bodies and throwing them away like garbage.
Jose Smith
>Pay rent while you are alive >Die >Pay rent just to be dead Something is wrong with this
Levi Hughes
Germans are dumb Nazis and have a tough time growing out of this.
Colton Torres
>State owned/operated multifaith cemeteries
How to dial the dystopian future to over 9000... Now tell me where she is buried so I can tell her what a pathetic cuck her grandson is.
So cemeteries just keep expanding into infinity? You do realize a lot of people die every year? Heidelberg would soon be nothing but a cemetery if you got your way. You talk about honoring the dead, but you yourself are obviously not prepared to honor the dead unless someone else pays for the honoring. Funny how that works. In my city, there are many cemeteries that simply cannot expand because they're locked by other land use on all sides. This is presumably the case in a lot of places.
Chase Perez
You support Kindergeld right? Of course you do. So why wouldn't you support resting places for your relatives? From the first to the last moments of someone's life they're valuable.
Hunter Morgan
idk healthcare is a luxury in the US
Joseph Lopez
>regularly exhuming bodies Nobody gets exhumed if you stop paying, your gravestone will be removed and another person is buried in your spot. If there are remains after 10 years they will be buried again on the same spot. Simple as that.
Charles Anderson
Your birth/death rates are abysmal, all numbers are declining rapidly ergo all the shitskins in your country now. You're worried about there not being enough space when there is no "next generation"?
Christopher Ross
Who cares? They’re dead. Just let them get dug up.
Noah Ortiz
>nothing gets taken out of the hole, but we put more stuff into the hole, and it stays the same.
....wut
Matthew Hill
You’d still pay for it in taxes
Nathan Martinez
you moved to a place were you have no land EAT SHIT
It's free for poor people and employers pay for most people to have Healthcare. Completely different topic though. Does France also throw corpses away like they're garbage?
Josiah Price
Dude do you think people in the US get free graves for ever and ever?
Blake Butler
The fuck is this draconian shit? In the US you buy a plot and it's yours to be dead in forever.... because you fucking bought it.
Zachary Cook
Right, not as much. Don't see a problem with a "hands free" system, do you?
You're kinda right, most of my land is a river. Just upgraded to this place in February. February 6th to be exact.
No we buy a plot of land and the maintenance fees are covered in perpetuity with the cost of the land. Why isn't it the same there?
Jose Scott
New York has been burying unclaimed bodies on Hart Island in mass graves without a tombstone for years.
Jaxon Smith
We eat our deceased. Burying meat is inhumane.
Alexander Johnson
So suddenly the discussion changes completely when you get called out for being irrational and entitled. You get mad and start raging at me. Muh rapidly declining numbers ergo lol. You're a clown.
Asher Moore
Right. That's why I'm confused about having to pay Germany money to not throw my Oma in a dumpster.
Liam Lopez
no you dont , the staate will take it and you can go and fuck your self because your dead. What you gona do? risse from the dead and shoot the people taking your grave nigger?
Nolan Hall
Yes mental patients and bums. I live not too far from there actually.
Neat.
Same topic, you mentioned infinitely expanding cemeteries, I mentioned more people are dying than being born, so the need would be gone after our generation dies, because no babies. Same topic.
Lucas Campbell
>From the first to the last moments of someone's life they're valuable.
Absolutely agreed - and then the life ends and you become organic waste that smells disgusting and spreads diseases. That's why it gets buried or burned. Graveyards are of course a giant waste of habitable space if they're in a city, so if you want to keep a place reserved for the rotting remains of your relatives, you better pay up.
Ayden Walker
nein as german graves are fro german people not fucking american niggers. What ever is left will be burnd and you get the ashes. Nobody will dump corpses anywhere we are not us mutts.
Jason Cook
If you're buried here the costs of maintaining your grave FOREVER are included in the costs of purchasing the burial plot. You don't use this system for some reason, so a state funded system would work the best. What do you do with the corpses?
Logan Edwards
>No we buy a plot of land and the maintenance fees are covered in perpetuity with the cost of the land. >in perpetuity HAHAHAHAH no. The grant of exclusive burial usually lasts between 25-100 years, as stipulated by the contract or local law. Normal burial plots in normal cemetaries do not last forever. If you want an enternal grave you need to buy actual real estate them hope your great great grandchildren don't sell it off.
Gavin Sanchez
You doxed yourself you dumb fucking braggart.
Nolan Thomas
Indeed, after 15 years nothing other then a fiew bones remain, wood and flesh and textile is gone. Those fiew bones are laid aside and will be laid on the new coffin afterwards. All of you stays there forever, you only lose your gravestone.
Daniel Lewis
Graveyards have been soverign groud, across the planet, for the entire time of our existence as civilized people. You're doing a disservice to your ancestors by allowing their remains to be disposed like garbage.
Elijah Morris
Normal cemeteries don't house mummies. You do realize that bodies and coffins rot away in the ground.
Luis Howard
Are you in a more rural area? Would surprise me if you could hold on land in a graveyard forever
Dominic Cruz
No it isn't you retard. If you are talking about a normal cemetary it is not forever. You can bury someone forever on your own property, assuming your great great grandchildren don't sell it.
Logan Nelson
I think you can still buy grave plots in germany from private companies.
Robert King
My street isn't even registered with the post office. If you want to call the real estate agent I bought it from, by all means.
So Austrians think an infinite amount of debris will fill a finite space? That's neat.
Jace Myers
because your country was basically empty land barring a few shitskins and everyone could own land there including for burying the dead, while euro cities have had graveyards for hundreds of years if not millennia as well as history of multiple plagues that led to pretty rigid standards for burials
we've also had so many wars passing by that if we tried to give a cemetary to each of them like you have for the civil war or the normandy dead we'd be nothing but graveyards
do you really think that there's a corpse remaining after 30 years? if there's a bit of ashes left then the grave will be dug deeper, the remains put there and the new coffin over it
Very close to NYC. That's how all graves everywhere in America work.
Chase Flores
Yes, after many years. Embalmed people tend to decay much slower.
Asher Myers
Yes it is, grave maintenance forever with the cost of the parcel of lands. No one ITT had told me what they do with the remains. You throw them away like garbage, like those Viking artifacts right?
Ayden Wood
>My street isn't even registered with the post office. It certainly is with realtor com. Searching the address pinpoints your actual location.
Lincoln Lee
People will keep dying for as long as there are people. Death vs birth rates are irrelevant. You will still have your cemeteries expanding every year since everyone has their own special snowflake grave provided by the state for ever and ever.
Connor Williams
When buried six feet down, without a coffin, in ordinary soil, an unembalmed adult normally takes eight to twelve years to decompose to a skeleton. However if placed in a coffin the body can take many years longer, depending on type of wood used. For example a solid oak coffin will hughly slow down the process. So this is an all natural burial, not including chemically treated wood coffins, and embalmed people.
Isaac Torres
Just cremate the body, dump the ashes somewhere, and move on with your life. It's just a corpse. Graves and tombstones are just forms of denial in the face of death. We're all going to die and not even memories of us will ever be permanent. Forget the dead and embrace life while you still have it.
Jonathan Rodriguez
>infinite amount of debris will fill a finite space Well, you are a mutt therefore i explain it again, in slow. A person in a coffin rots over time, so does the coffin. After 15 years a handfull of bones are left in the grave. So the whloe space of the grave is filled with earth and a handfull of bones. After 15 years you stop paying and another one pays for 15 years, in this time your bones vanished and in the grave there are earth and a handful of bones of the guy buried after you. No infinite debris. Got it now?
Lincoln Barnes
Here the minimum lease is 25 years. If there is something left in the grave after that, the grave is dug deeper and the remaining remains laid there and new coffin on top.
Ryan Martin
Neat. Don't care.
>even if people aren't born, they'll die in the future