"Alabama man fights to keep wife buried in front yard"

[Kaleva]

She had passed away before her husband buried her in the front yard.

http://news.yahoo.com/ala-man-fights-keep-wife-buried-front-yard-153303814.html

[frogmarch]

1. Kind of sad, really.

It reminds me of the farm family just outside of Hemingford, Nebraska (Stephen King used the town, which he called Hemingford Home, as settings for some of his novels).

Anyway, the elderly mom died smack dab in the middle of harvest time, so her husband and their grown kids stashed her body in the root cellar until harvest was over. Then they loaded her into the back of their truck and headed to their home state of Alabama to bury her on their old family homestead. They were stopped about 50 miles down the road and told they couldn't haul a body in the back of a pickup truck.

Death is so complicated nowadays.

[jberryhill]

2. Oh, okay, as long she's dead

Otherwise, I would side with digging her up.

[MADem]

3. She's not polluting the groundwater, but that's going to be a tough house to sell in years to come.

Ignoring the council's decision, Davis said he and a son-in-law cranked a backhoe and dug a grave just a few feet from the house. A mortuary installed a concrete vault, and workers lowered Patsy's body into the plot in a nice, metal casket.

If it becomes the family vacation home, well, whatever...but I think that's a bit anti-social, frankly, to be burying your dead all over the damn yard. Then again, I am a fan of FLAME ON--CREMATION which takes up no space, really.

[Kaleva]

4. The home buying shows on cable could talk about the impact of dead buried in the yard.

Does 1 or more people buried in the front yard add to the value of the home or does it decrease it?

[MADem]

5. I'd say it almost always decreases it, unless the dead person is a president or a rock star or some

other famous "pilgrimage-worthy" person! A sports hero? It would have to be someone of Babe Ruth's stature!

[Kaleva]

6. I could plan ahead and rename my dog "Elvis" or "Jimmy Hoffa".