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Title: Take better care of your dead
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 28/07/2021 05:57:31: Whatever groundskeeper tends to this cemetery ought to be fired... Picture was taken somewhere in the British Isles.
Title: Re: Take better care of your dead
Post by: Colin2B on 28/07/2021 16:24:28: Quote from: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 28/07/2021 05:57:31
Whatever groundskeeper tends to this cemetery ought to be fired... Picture was taken somewhere in the British Isles.
No, he gets accolade from tourist board. Americans come over here to see this and drink in the history.
The dead person is dead, we serve the living.
Title: Re: Take better care of your dead
Post by: Eternal Student on 28/07/2021 20:31:58: Hi.
I'm not sure what the issue is or what is shown in the picture.

The cemetry could be kept in better order. Moss could be cleared from the grave stones etc. However, there are worse examples.
This looks like a church graveyard. The main church of the UK is "the church of England" and it is not as well funded or supported as it used to be. In the past, most UK residents went to church. There were also good numbers of people who volunteered their time to assist the church and this would have included maintaining the church grounds and graveyard.
Exact figures for church attendance are hard to obtain. A brief websearch suggested that in 1980 more than 11% of the poupulation were regular attendees, while by 2105 only 5% of the population were regular attendees. I have the impression that if you went back 200 years it would have been more like 90% of the population who regularly attended church.
[Information source: Google search taking extracts from Humanism.org.uk and also faithsurvey.co.uk]
Title: Re: Take better care of your dead
Post by: Bored chemist on 28/07/2021 21:55:58: Well...
"The Church of England has a large endowment of £8.7 billion which generates approximately £1 billion a year in income (2019), this is their largest source of revenue."
From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_and_finances_of_the_Church_of_England#:~:text=13%20References-,Endowment,their%20largest%20source%20of%20revenue.
Title: Re: Take better care of your dead
Post by: Eternal Student on 28/07/2021 23:21:08: Hi B_C.
That's probably fair information. I'm still not sure what the original topic of conversation was supposed to be about to be honest.
Title: Re: Take better care of your dead
Post by: Colin2B on 29/07/2021 08:30:03: Quote from: Eternal Student on 28/07/2021 23:21:08
I'm still not sure what the original topic of conversation was supposed to be about to be honest.
Just the OP making his usual pointless comments about uk/Europe. Talk about kettle calling ............
Title: Re: Take better care of your dead
Post by: Bored chemist on 29/07/2021 09:03:36: Quote from: Eternal Student on 28/07/2021 23:21:08
Hi B_C.
That's probably fair information. I'm still not sure what the original topic of conversation was supposed to be about to be honest.
Given who posted the OP, I'm not surprised that it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Title: Re: Take better care of your dead
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 03/08/2021 07:01:38: Sorry, was not meant to be a 100% serious question.