World Grave Problem: Nothing Is Rotting in the State of Norway

KaerfNomekop

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OSLO—Oslo's funeral director has long wrestled with the particularly morbid job of dealing with Norway's longtime insistence on "plastic graves." Now, she is using technology to fight back.

Shortly after World War II, Norwegians began a three-decade-long practice of wrapping their dead in plastic before laying them to rest in wooden caskets, believing the practice was more sanitary. Hundreds of thousands of burials later, gravediggers realized the airtight conditions kept the corpses from decomposing.

"The priest says 'ashes to ashes,' but we ain't got no ashes on the other end," Margaret Eckbo, Oslo's director of funerals, said while walking around Grefsen cemetery on a hill overlooking the city.

"From ashes to plastic doesn't sound all that good," she said.

The presence of plastic-wrap graves doesn't bode well for a municipality where real estate is scarce and expensive. For centuries, Norwegians—and others in Europe—have reused graves after 20 years, so as to conserve land.

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No zombies yet, sadly.
 

Wummi

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They're just waiting for the right virus to activate them.
 

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"The plastic thing was obviously a mistake and we all want things to end the natural way, don't we?" she said. "One has to assume that they don't feel any of it when lying down there."
If they do?
 

Varine

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Sucks for them, they should have been more clear in their will.
 
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