Anyone who thinkgs the mortuaries using his services didn't know something was amiss, is wrong. In most instances, the crematory returns the ashes in a plastic bag and a cardboard box. The mortuary, who sells the families those expensive urns, packages the ashes in the urns. Now a layman may not know the differences between stove ashes or pulverized concrete, the a mortician does. They were all complicit in one way or another. Don't let anyone tell you different. Sue Silver CA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Kimball" <richkmball@hotmail.com> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 5:49 PM Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Archeologists and cemetery preservation > Jack, > Hope you're not contracted with the crematory in Georgia. > Rich > > >From: Jb502000@aol.com > >Reply-To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com > >To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Archeologists and cemetery preservation > >Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 02:44:40 EST > > > >In a message dated 2/17/02 11:40:18 AM US Eastern Standard Time, > >andimac@oz.net writes: > > > > > > > > > > It is my opinion that archeologists are interested in burials in a > > > historical sense but are not interested in current cemetery > >preservation. > > > One is in the past, the other is current. I might call an archeologist > >if > > > I > > > needed to know if there is a historical Native American burial, but I > >would > > > not call an archeologist to conserve a stone. > > > > > > -------------- > > > Andrea D. MacDonald "Andi" > > > andimac@oz.net > > > > > > > > Andi, > > you said exactly what I feel about the Ancient Native Americans and what > >I > >call modern man, from the last 200 odd years. My question is WHY are they > >different. > >And If you can't disturb a "Modern Burial " site, how can you dig up a > >Native > >American and Cart them off for studies. Study WHAT. They died and were > >buried. No one should be able to remove anything buried in a grave site, > >just > >to find out WHAT ? When a Burial Site is Discovered, LET IT BE. For 68 > >years > >I have heard that a Burial Site is Hallowed Ground. Why can't people honor > >that and work around them. I;m sorry I won't be around when these Large > >Beautiful cemeteries run out of money, or ground and Grow up with Brush. > > It will happen, not today, not tomorrow but maybe a Hundred > >years from now just like the small ones we worry about now. They never > >dreamed anything would happen to them either. My wife and I are going to > >be > >Creamated. No one will ever have to worry about us. And $5,000 dollar > >stones > >wont have to be bulldozed when the area we will be scattered at is graded > >off. And they can put in a Airport, Factory, House, etc, etc. WE WONT CARE. > >Thanks for the story Andi, I for one understand that you make sense > >Jack E. Briles Sr. > >jb502000@aol.com > > > > > >==== 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." > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > Blessed are the Elderly, for they remember what we will never know. > >