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Archive Home > 2009 > October > 29 > Grave shortage hits London

Grave shortage hits London

Cemetery overcrowding is so bad that officials are trying to persuade strangers to share plots

By Jill Lawless / The Bulletin
October 29, 2009

LONDON — So you think London, population 8 million, is crowded with the living?

There are many millions more under the soil of a city that has been inhabited for 2,000 years. And London is rapidly running out of places to put them.

Now the city’s largest cemetery is trying to persuade Londoners....

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