Burial space a worldwide problem

June 18, 2016 it was very hot and the big gap in the clouds flitting across the sky
didn't help. The sun being overhead and bright made it difficuilt taking pics.
The man in the pic, covered with 'plastic' gunny bag material was spraying
a herbicide to prevent shrubs and grass sprouting after the first heavy shower
of rain that is overdue! Some people are hardworking, this guy was just that.
A phone call from a feeling-hearted boss may have saved this guy's life so
he can work another day!
I was in Varanasi for more than a year in the mid 1980s when I visited the three
or four cemeteries there, one being in the cantonment. This one was clearly
visible from the train as it crawled the last few hundred metres to the station.
The cemetery was not in use anymore and now looking back, considering the 
decay all around, I feel the graves were in fairly good condition. What I was
pleased with were the stone slabs of graves that had disintegrated cemented
into the boundary wall. That was a good idea! 
Cremation has caught on in western countries, including Australia, but it is 
still slow in India where the wood pyre for the disposal of human remains is 
an ancient tradition. Electric crematoriums while in use, even in Lucknow,
 are usually used by non-Hindus. 
Today my thinking has altered but 25 years ago while on a trip to Bombay I 
was shocked to know that a Bandra church with a burial ground, rented space 
only for two years, after which the remains were interred in a wall!
Switzerland has its own rules for the dead, according to a blog post  
 Grave Art, by Eva Schawohl.
I checked the internet for the first time today and came across a report
 from Cape Town, South Africa in the Sunday Times: 'No room for burial rituals...' 
where some 1000 burials and 600 cremations are recorded on a monthly
basis.