TIL about a Burial Tax: a local tax was in place requiring a fee to be paid for "perpetual" burial. Some bodies for which the tax was not paid were disinterred and are in a museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummies_of_Guanajuato
#til #todayilearned
Dude, this happened to my family in the 90's. Our "lease" at the city cemetery expired, and the new one was way beyond what we could pay. So everybody up to my great grandfather was taken out and unceremoniously dumped into a mass grave. From that moment onward, we have always cremated and thrown the ashes somewhere nice.
