Mexico's capital is rapidly running out of gravesites
and many residents of this growing metropolis of 9 million people have
to exhume the remains of their loved ones once the burial rights expire
to make room for new bodies. Officials say there is no public land
available for new cemeteries.
The
lack of cemetery space has prompted the city's legislative assembly to
propose a law that would reduce the time a body can remain in a grave
and encourage people to cremate the bodies of their love ones, a move
that critics say will threaten Mexico's long and rich traditions
surrounding burying and celebrating the dead.
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