8th August 2005, 03:00 PM
There was a Jewish Cemetery excavated in Winchester excavated in the early/Mid 90's (one of my friends was the site director) the skeletons were reburied by the local Jewish Community after scientific analysis.
Excavating "Jewish" human remains in Israel can be dangerous with the "Ultra orthodox" or "zionist" communities and "religious police" refusing to let you excavate or analyse human remains. They come on site and harrass you and basically close you down. You can even get telephone/written death threats even though the remains might not be "Jewish" or "Israelite".
Jews and Muslims must be buried "complete" i.e no bits missing within 24 hours (so they can enter heaven/paradise-thats also why for example in Islamic sharia law a thief - who stole an item that was "attached"/"protected""guarded","not tied down" etc would have a hand amputated in order to be "a marked man" in life and easily spotable by God and therefore denied access at the entrance to Paradise- this comes from the Sumerian and probably older concept of "an eye for an eye") . The Israelis have highly specialialised religious humain remains/forensic scene of crimes experts who go to bomb explosion sites etc to recover the slightest fragment of human remains for identification and burial.
Under modern UK law it is impossible to bury/cremate the deceases for legal reasons- post mortems, death certificates, undertaker, church,temple, mosque, priest,rabi, iman, crematorium availabilty, deceased last wishes/testament/will etc (I've just suffered a sudden death in my family in the last 2 weeks so this is from personal experience). The fallout and delays caused from "Dr Death" Harold Shipman case is enormous if somebody has died in hospital or under medical supervision particularly if they were given morphine etc.
Hindus in Britain need to be cremated and their ashes scattered on a holy river normally the Ganges. Many have their bodies/ashes sent back to India for this however a stretch of the River Severn near Bridgenorth I think, has been officially designated a Sacred place/river by the goverment and the Hindu religious authorities where they can scatter the ashes. There are probably others so if anybody knows please tell me.
At least 3 of my own family have had their ashes scattered to the wind or water in various places in the UK. Not all Graves are "permanent". Here in switzerland it is common practise that a grave plot is only rented out and "occupied" for 20-25 years before the cadaver is exhumed and placed into a common grave or ossurary. In certain regions, Zurich for example, the local geological conditions means the bodies tend to convert into adipocire which cause health hazards to the exhumers and isn't particularly pleasant to look at causing psycological trauma etc.
Little Tim
Excavating "Jewish" human remains in Israel can be dangerous with the "Ultra orthodox" or "zionist" communities and "religious police" refusing to let you excavate or analyse human remains. They come on site and harrass you and basically close you down. You can even get telephone/written death threats even though the remains might not be "Jewish" or "Israelite".
Jews and Muslims must be buried "complete" i.e no bits missing within 24 hours (so they can enter heaven/paradise-thats also why for example in Islamic sharia law a thief - who stole an item that was "attached"/"protected""guarded","not tied down" etc would have a hand amputated in order to be "a marked man" in life and easily spotable by God and therefore denied access at the entrance to Paradise- this comes from the Sumerian and probably older concept of "an eye for an eye") . The Israelis have highly specialialised religious humain remains/forensic scene of crimes experts who go to bomb explosion sites etc to recover the slightest fragment of human remains for identification and burial.
Under modern UK law it is impossible to bury/cremate the deceases for legal reasons- post mortems, death certificates, undertaker, church,temple, mosque, priest,rabi, iman, crematorium availabilty, deceased last wishes/testament/will etc (I've just suffered a sudden death in my family in the last 2 weeks so this is from personal experience). The fallout and delays caused from "Dr Death" Harold Shipman case is enormous if somebody has died in hospital or under medical supervision particularly if they were given morphine etc.
Hindus in Britain need to be cremated and their ashes scattered on a holy river normally the Ganges. Many have their bodies/ashes sent back to India for this however a stretch of the River Severn near Bridgenorth I think, has been officially designated a Sacred place/river by the goverment and the Hindu religious authorities where they can scatter the ashes. There are probably others so if anybody knows please tell me.
At least 3 of my own family have had their ashes scattered to the wind or water in various places in the UK. Not all Graves are "permanent". Here in switzerland it is common practise that a grave plot is only rented out and "occupied" for 20-25 years before the cadaver is exhumed and placed into a common grave or ossurary. In certain regions, Zurich for example, the local geological conditions means the bodies tend to convert into adipocire which cause health hazards to the exhumers and isn't particularly pleasant to look at causing psycological trauma etc.
Little Tim