• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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      17 hours ago

      they just pile up on the sidewalks. Which is why you can’t just walk everywhere. It’s all just completely covered in piles of corpses

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      17 hours ago

      We do ofc they’re just in the middle of nowhere isolated from people. The only time you see graveyards near a town center is when you go to the oldest parts of your city

      • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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        Nah, I saw place with grave stones and nearby there’s the front of a house literally facing it right across the street, with just a one-way-street’s distance apart. Not even that “isolated” or “middle of nowhere”.

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      Generally, they will move the graveyard is there’s nearby construction. They need to get permission from the next of kin to do it though. There’s one semi-famous example in New Jersey where they could not find any next of kin for a single grave and ended up building around it. There’s also one graveyard that’s been cut right in half by a highway.

      American’s value capitalism more then the Japanese respect their dead, so it’s not hard to convince Americans to truck their ancestors around.