Darwin City Council has proposed changes to the Cemetries Act to allow it to bury people standing up or stacked in threes. File image. Source: AP
DEAD people would be buried standing up under a city council plan to make better use of space at cemeteries.
Darwin City Council has asked the NT Government's Local Government Department to investigate if people can be buried feet first, The NT News reports.
"Vertical positioning of the body in the ground is a good use of space," Alderman Gary Lambert said.
The council also wants to see if up to three people can be buried in a grave in a "horizontal stack".
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It made the requests after the government department began a review of the NT Cemeteries Act.
Mr Lambert said people should be given options about how they were to be buried.
"There's a lot of merit in in-filling new burial sites that are eventually going to be surrounded by the suburbs where you can get a lot more people in the ground by standing them up," he told the council last week.
"I wanted to make sure the act allowed for people to choose."
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