many owner feel his pet more intimately connected than other people. Especially if dog, cat and co., are, for example, after the death of the long-standing partner, the only faithful companion. The Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, wants to respond to this aspect, and is considering, in the future, human-animal burials, as the first of the “Hamburger Abendblatt” reported.

Consequently, a corresponding desire on the part of the citizen participation project “Ohlsdorf 2050 was carried” on the person responsible. “We have to do it, especially with older gentlemen. If their only Partner at the age the animals are, then you want to go away together,” said a spokesman for the Hamburg cemeteries of the German press Agency.

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An Area of land used for such burials has been found, according to “Hamburger Abendblatt”. Accordingly, the grave could arise from areas within the next five years in the Eastern part of the with a total of 389 hectares and is the largest Park cemetery of the world. For the human-animal burials, about 120 square meters were available there.

the project will eventually be a reality, would have to be changed, the Hamburg burial act 1988. This says currently that animals may be buried Safirbet in normal cemeteries. Owners can carry their loved one instead, only in special animal cemeteries in the region of the Hanseatic city to the grave.

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That pet and master or mistress later in the same grave, and requires, according to the plans, however, that the burial in urns. Difficult could be the calculation of the necessary grave area. It is conceivable that someone have successively several animals that would have to be added after their respective demise. It is also possible that the pet owner dies first, and accordingly, a space for the pet must be kept. The details of the cost, there is not, according to “Hamburger Abendblatt”. To ensure that the ohlsdorf cemetery to bury only ashes of dogs, cats, rabbits, and Canary-birds, beer. Larger animals, for example horses, would not question for the time being, though, their carcasses could be incinerated.

pioneer is not Hamburg with his approach, however. So a few of the German cities already offer such burials.

source: “Hamburger Abendblatt” (paid content) / Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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