Mayor Digs Cemetery Out of Hole
Mayor of Las Tablas Edison Gonzalez confirmed the habilitation of a mass grave in the city’s Francisco Gonzalez Roca cemetery as a remedy for the elevated numbers of forgotten dead.
Gonzalez’s statements came during an inspection of the grave where undertakers deposited the remains from several municipal vaults with dues unpaid for over a decade. Faced with a deficit of burial space, remains from indebted crypts were also removed so as to make room for more recently deceased.
The Mayor recalled that when he took office in July 2009, the cemetery was $50,000 in the hole, $30,000 of which has since been recovered.
La Prensa reports.
Wait a minute… Las Tablas… aren’t we talking about the same province that has a problem with an excess of latrines (reported on last week in The Panama Digest). So my thinking is this: dead bodies in excess, excrement in excess… uh, do I detect a burgeoning organic fertilizer industry? Come on folks, lets think resourceful!
something related to Carnaval?
(Panama’s 2011 Carnaval celebrations are scheduled for March 5 to 8.)
Well yes, ultimately I guess Carnaval is just one big excrement production event, if that’s what you mean. And people do occasionally die, and their bodies are probably often forgotten. Maybe Carnaval is the root of this problem. I hadn’t considered that. However, I still see potential for micro-enterprise in compost production.