This happens more often than we know about, though it’s still a pretty rare occurrence.
…I don’t know…does it really matter? Once we’re in the dirt, it’s done. You’re visiting a place dedicated to a memory, not the decomposing mass…right? Maybe I’m being overly blasé about it.
This woman had a family plot, where other members of her family were buried, and she wanted to be buried next to them.
My family has a plot. When I die, I’d like to be buried next to my parents and siblings, not somewhere else. When I visit my family in cemeteries, it’s much easier for me when they’re all together instead of spread out around the place. (Have you ever tried visiting in a cemetery - it can be surprisingly hard to find people!)
And finally, we paid for that particular piece of land, sometimes for a particular reason - a nearby tree or creek, for example, may drive up the price of a plot. Why should we be switched to a different plot that we didn’t choose?
I visit the headstones of my family several times a year, not quite monthly… but I’ve never been overly concerned about if the decomposing body under the dirt was ACTUALLY gram-gram and shabadoo.
I guess what I’m saying is, I agree with you that if the plot is there, the headstone should be there. I misunderstood the article and thought they just mixed up the bodies, not misplaced the entire grave.
(Have you ever tried visiting in a cemetery - it can be surprisingly hard to find people!)
They never seem to respond when you call out names
Yeesh, it says they only discovered the other body on the day of the funeral, when they saw that the grave had already been filled by someone else. And that for some reason it took the company an entire week to just put her sister’s remains in another spot the family already had.
