** Reply to message from Norma Lewis <norie@localaccess.com> on Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:04:58 -0800 Norma, > how can they call it the former cemetery before they remove > the bodies? They seem to be jumping the gun a little, wouldn't you think? Just > like they kept telling us it wasn't a cemetery anymore because they bulldozed > it! Lots of hype in that town! Forgive my butting in on your very distressing situation, but I wonder if what they're struggling to say isn't "disused cemetery": I'm sure I've seen that expression used over here for ceneteries that are full up and no longer open for burials (except sometimes in existing family graves). Sometimes such cemeteries in London are locked up and left to moulder away; sometimes they have active groups of "friends" who look after and tend them; sometimes they are semi-converted into a quiet park. It always makes me sad, though, when I see headstones all uprooted stacked against the perimeter walls, just to make the grass easier to mow. I'm afraid that can happen everywhere. John, in Lewisham, Greater London, England