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How Has Urban Development Influenced Modern Burials

Writer Amelia Brooks

How Has Urban Development Influenced Modern Burials

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With more emphasis on last rites, many of the city's cemeteries no longer accept burial, and open burial (i.e. in crypts) is prohibited almost everywhere. There are commercial cemeteries in large urban areas, but most of them are ■■■■. Sometimes graves dug during infectious diseases hinder growth, while insect pits are often a temporary problem rather than a permanent solution.

How Has Urban Development Influenced Modern Burials