The Netherlands is a country about the size of Garissa county in Kenya with a population of 17 million people. Space is premium and in some places graves are rented and can be reused after a 10 to 20 year lease and the remains are cleared after the time expires.
Tag: funerals
When Symptoms Persist, Plan For A Funeral
The nation is sick and people are so afraid of falling ill, they would rather die, because when symptoms persist, Kenyans start planning for a funeral.
Of Funerals And Grief
We seem to have totally forgotten that funerals are for the living. All I see now is ceremonial pomp and politics over a corpse and hardly any grief or empathy for the bereaved.