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Share a grave with a stranger?

London's largest cemetary is trying to convince people to share a grave with someone. Other countries in Europe often re-use old graves after a couple of decades. In most of Britain re-using old graves is still illegal. Since the law changed last year, cemetery staff have begun the process of digging up old remains, reburying them deeper and putting new dead bodies on top, in what have been dubbed "double-decker" graves.Burks, a burly man who began working at the cemetery as a groundsman and gravedigger almost 25 years ago, said reusing graves will buy the rapidly filling cemetery six or seven more years of burials."We are doing our damnedest to make the cemetery more sustainable," he said. So far, no cemeteries in London have followed this rule. 29-year-old London receptionist Temi Oshinowo said "I don't even want to think about it. It's not showing respect. It doesn't matter whether or not the person has been buried for 25 years or 100 years, that is their space and you should give them respect."