The concept is that you get a spot on a graveyard permanently as a muslim, but it is custom to give back the spot when noone is alive, who remembered the deceased relative, so usually in the third or fourth generation.
But why wouldnt a graveyard last “forever”? We have many church graveyards that can be tracked back to early medieval times, so easily a thousand years, in Germany.
Cremations were quite normal in many parts around the world, actuslly. In Europe, Christian influences caused a ban on them, but for ages cremations were the way to go. They make more sense anyway: people who cremate their dead are less likely to catch diseases from rotting corpses than people who handle put the (diseased) body back in the ground.
The concept is that you get a spot on a graveyard permanently as a muslim, but it is custom to give back the spot when noone is alive, who remembered the deceased relative, so usually in the third or fourth generation.
But why wouldnt a graveyard last “forever”? We have many church graveyards that can be tracked back to early medieval times, so easily a thousand years, in Germany.
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and hell even a hundred years ago graveyards in cities started becoming problematically full, that’s literally why cremations was invented.
Cremations were quite normal in many parts around the world, actuslly. In Europe, Christian influences caused a ban on them, but for ages cremations were the way to go. They make more sense anyway: people who cremate their dead are less likely to catch diseases from rotting corpses than people who handle put the (diseased) body back in the ground.
Just bury them together with nuclear waste. Two birds sealed under one stone and the radiation might give them superpowers in the afterlife
He’s still alive, he’s 75 but he’s still going strong.