Mexico’s capital is rapidly
running out of gravesites and many residents of this growing metropolis
of 9 million people have to exhume the remains of their loved ones once
the burial rights expire to make room for new bodies. Officials say
there is no public land available for new cemeteries.
The lack of cemetery space has
prompted the city’s legislative assembly to propose a law that would
reduce the time a body can remain in a grave and encourage people to
cremate the bodies of their love ones, a move that critics say will
threaten Mexico’s long and rich traditions surrounding burying and
celebrating the dead.
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