We have to assume that the developer that built the house had enough ethics and respect that if there were any indications of a burial found that they would have done the right thing. Of course we all know that most developers are only interested in one thing, making as much money as possible. I think that it's not a matter of people not caring, but something much more. Sue was right, it's a serious lack of respect. Here where I am in the east suburbs of Atlanta, we have developers clearing every bit of land that they can find. They don't care what may be there, gotta build on it. We really need that Target three miles down the road from the next one. We really need three grocery stores at every intersection. We really need the new 1200 unit apartment complex that is being built at a time when people are moving out of Atlanta and there are more vacant apartments that there has been in the past 10 years. That land needs to be developed. Gotta make that money. William Spurlock Saving Graves http://www.savinggraves.com -----Original Message----- From: rvkeller@iupui.edu [mailto:rvkeller@iupui.edu] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:56 PM To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Cemetery Laws On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Sue Silver wrote: > > You know, in the past, people would never have considered building their house or a barn on a cemetery. It just wasn't done. > They had respect. What happened? I think many people just don't care. Think about it, how do a lot of us know our homes are not build over Indian graves? The whole fact of the spirit lives on just means a body is a body. I know that the IU med school gets their fair share of bodies donated to medical science. I never really thought much about it, but that is a total 180 from the norm. I think it's more of a thought pattern that life is from brith till death, then after that who cares. ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== To UNSUBSCRIBE, send message consisting only of "UNSUBSCRIBE" to INPCRP-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com or to INPCRP-D-REQUEST@rootsweb.com (for DIGEST version)

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, William Spurlock wrote: > I think that it's not a matter of people not caring, but something much > more. Sue was right, it's a serious lack of respect. Here where I am in the > east suburbs of Atlanta, we have developers clearing every bit of land that > they can find. They don't care what may be there, gotta build on it. We > really need that Target three miles down the road from the next one. We > really need three grocery stores at every intersection. We really need the > new 1200 unit apartment complex that is being built at a time when people > are moving out of Atlanta and there are more vacant apartments that there > has been in the past 10 years. That land needs to be developed. Gotta make > that money. What's funny is that if the demand wasn't there, it wouldn't be built. Lucky for us, Target took a bankrupt department stores place in the mall. The mall was one of the worse ones in town. Now that Target is there, many name brand stores are coming in and it's turning around. I think there is a total lack of brain power when it comes to this sort of thing. A professor of mine had a group of grad students who went to this county just west of Indianapolis. This was about 8-10 years ago I believe. The county board was having trouble keep plants and industrial parks away from homes. The reason: They didn't have ANY zoning laws at all. When the board had these grad students come up with an idea, they said 'you need a zoning board'. The farming community went crazy. I see both sides, one you have a farmer with some debt, may need to sell off some land. One the other hand you have people who buy a house thinking in 5 years it will be all homes. Then comes some industrial park. The main battle we face is that of _private_ property. Also, we can also blame the population in general. There has been a rush to cities and their surrounding counties. Rural suburbs are now both suburban and rural. Head 10 miles in a certain direction, your in a corn fields. > > William Spurlock > Saving Graves > http://www.savinggraves.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: rvkeller@iupui.edu [mailto:rvkeller@iupui.edu] > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:56 PM > To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Cemetery Laws > > > > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Sue Silver wrote: > > > > > You know, in the past, people would never have considered building their > house or a barn on a cemetery. It just wasn't done. > > They had respect. What happened? > > I think many people just don't care. Think about it, how do a lot of us > know our homes are not build over Indian graves? The whole fact of the > spirit lives on just means a body is a body. I know that the IU med > school gets their fair share of bodies donated to medical science. I > never really thought much about it, but that is a total 180 from the norm. > I think it's more of a thought pattern that life is from brith till death, > then after that who cares. > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE, send message consisting only of > "UNSUBSCRIBE" to INPCRP-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > or to INPCRP-D-REQUEST@rootsweb.com (for DIGEST version) > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > Quote from William Gladstone (1809-1897), three-time Prime Minister of England > and Victorian contemporary of Benjamin Disraeli: > "Show me the manner in which a nation or community > cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical > exactness the tender mercies of its people, their > respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty > to high ideals." > >