Inspired by this article, which describes a St. Petersburg, FL woman who bought a cemetery plot next to her husband’s grave. Since she bought it, the cemetery has re-sold the plot twice and is now insisting that she move her husband to a different plot because the family of the person buried next to him refuses to move her. (The particulars are spelled out in the linked article.)
In the comments attached to the article, a few people have mentioned moving the other person’s body without asking permission. That seems wrong, but I now wonder who actually owns the plots? Cemeteries charge money for them, but I don’t know if there is an actual transfer of ownership or if the money is just intended to hold the plot.
And is moving the other person’s body without asking permission from the family legal, or would there likely be charges of abusing a corpse (or whatever)?
If you happen to be in Paris, an interesting tourist site is the catacombs. Nothing to do with Roman “hide from the emperor” tunnels; these were tunnels to quarry the limestone that most of the big buildings of Paris are made from. After the revolution, when the church was out of favour, the government decided that the huge overcrowded cemetaries in the city were unhealthy, and spent several years emptying the bones into these tunnels south of the city (now inside the city). You walk for over a mile through tunnels lined with bones, identified only by which parish they came from. They build walls of neatly stacked bones - usually thighs - and tossed everything else in behind them. In some places they have neat walls of skulls, or decorations like hearts and crosses made from skulls. A perfect place for your video-game addicted teen boy to see…