Talk:Common burial

exact meaning

Do I understand right that common burial is a positive term? And it can be used for kinds of burial where there are deliberately no individual graves?

So the definition as mass interment would be misleading, and the example of children should be accomplished by others?

--Ikar.us (talk) 10:24, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Examples of common burials

WARNING: Grimness ahead ---

See this Hart Island, New York Project page. It details how approximately 800,000 unknown and indigent people have been buried by New York City. Adults and children are buried in individual coffins in trenches 70 feet long on Hart Island ("Potter's Field"). 150 adults and 1000 children are in each trench. Families have seven years to claim a relative thus buried. After 25 years, trenches are opened, remains fragments are buried in a mass grave, and the trenches reused. Records are kept, but vandals destroyed a bunch of them in the 1970s. The process is like a well-oiled machine. http://hartisland.net/wwwebs/Home/History/tabid/64/Default.aspx

This article covers the disturbing, chaotic burials in Haiti following the earthquake. Although they were officially sanctioned, they were far from well-oiled. I'm hoping the situation has been reconciled since 2012. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/22/unidentified-corpses-haiti-earthquake?INTCMP=SRCH

All the best, Wordreader (talk) 00:28, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]