Question 18156 — death and death

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Mr. Guillaume Gouffier-Cha draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the question of the burial of deceased citizens. Regularly, municipalities are forced to carry out exhumations-cremations to free up locations. For example, in Paris, out of 7 million deceased persons appearing in the registers of twenty cemeteries, there are only 630,000 concessions, which allows us to get an idea of ​​the turnover rate of locations. Obliged to ensure the continuity of the public funeral service, municipalities are therefore faced with a necessity which often turns into a dilemma. One idea to put an end to this dilemma - and defended by the international association for the defense of fundamental rights (AIDDF) - would be to create "Great national places of memory" where the exhumed reliquaries would be densely reinterred. Indeed, according to the AIDDF, France would have more than 10,000 disused quarries which could easily be made available to municipalities for this purpose by the State. The benefit for town halls would be considerable, since they would be freed from the heavy task of carrying out cremations and maintaining ossuaries, and they would thus be able to better respect the principle of rest in the ground, always very important for a large number of citizens. He wished to draw his attention to this proposal, the feasibility of which he would like to know, knowing that it presents numerous advantages both from the point of view of the municipalities and from that of respect for the rights of citizens, deceased and living.

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