Tag: cemeteries

Cemeteries to Merge After Audit on Sydney Grave Space

Three years is all some Orthodox and Muslim communities have left before their allocated grave space in Sydney’s crown cemeteries is filled. And the Eastern Orthodox faith, which includes Greek Orthodox, will run out of grave space in four and a half years. The dire situation revealed on May 19 has prompted the amalgamation of…


The Beauty and Education Offered by Cemeteries

Commentary Since my adolescence I have loved churchyards and cemeteries. I still find entry to them as irresistibly tempting as to bookshops. Cemeteries are a spur to the imagination; they are an education in the tragic dimension of life and hence are a consolation. They instill gratitude and a sense of proportion. They are often…