3,000 graves to be built, sold at Addolorata

George Chapman

Oct 7th 2012, 21:48

And when is cremation going to be legalised in Malta?? So I have to die here, be transported abroad then brought back as ashes? At what cost and practicality?? I have a family grave but don't ever wish to end up there. I would rather be cremated and have my ashes either kept by loved ones in a casket or thrown over the sea around malta.

A. MICALLEF

Oct 4th 2012, 12:18

How about a very big one for GONZIPN ? One should write " After a very WRONG CHOICE, now
here lies death GONZIPN" R.I.P.

R. Farrugia

Oct 4th 2012, 11:28

At such a price I'd dig it myself with a toy shovel - if not bare handed! And oh, speaking of holes, I recon we got quite a few in our roads; why not use people's remains to fill them up and reduce materials costs? Tenders are open for carcass aquisitions...

Tony Camilleri

Oct 3rd 2012, 23:02

Does the Government have the guts to say that we do not have any inflation?

roy young

Oct 3rd 2012, 21:04

8000 euro for my rotten corpse , no thanks , put in a skip!

Kevin Marks

Oct 3rd 2012, 20:53

Hahahaj l ahhar elezzjoni ghamilt siegha fil kju ghax baghtu ghalija u z zija tal mara cemplitli ghax applikat ghal wiehed u ma riditux biex tara rridux jien....tghid mhux se nerga niblahha Dr Cassar daqs kemm qed nibilghu li nehhejt il waiting lists u li ma ghadx ikun hemm pazjenti fil kuriduri!!! Go tell it to the marines this time Dott

Godfrey Camilleri

Oct 3rd 2012, 18:58

Quite a jump in prices; we bought ours 20 years ago for €700!

mark johnson

Oct 3rd 2012, 18:33

Seriously, what if you die and can't afford a funeral.

What do they do with your corpse?

Robert Lewis

Oct 3rd 2012, 18:05

The real cost of a new grave was 8000 euro the Minister said, are they going to be built with granite Mr Minister. It is the simpliest thing to build, unless the Mepa permit is very expensive. Somebody must be already counting the cash he will make on this. Dr Debono what is your opinion on this please.

GL Calleja

Oct 3rd 2012, 17:36

What a bunch of macaroni.You cannot afford to die in peace anymore. What happens to people who cannot afford the price of €5,000 for a burial site? Maybe bury them in a field someplace? Get over it people. It is about time this country recognizes cremation. It is very cost effective and even the poor might be able to afford to die in peace. I would like for my ashes to be spread on the waters between Malta and Kemmuna. I hope that is not too much to ask, besides I am claustrophobic and don't like closed places, besides I cannot imagine all those ants feasting on my body. So in other words if you want to purchase two plots for your Mum and Dad it will cost you a nice €10,000 euros? And that is if you are one of the chosen. How ridiculous, having to stand in line to be buried properly. money talks and bullshit walks. It seems that the more we progress the more we regress. I will die before I will let them lower me into any grave. Just a bit of humour, get it?

anthony sultana

Oct 3rd 2012, 13:33

To make life easy for every one ,we should not thing what is going to happen to our lifeless body.Thats should be free to every one,like they use to do 100 years ago.Business on graves which is very strong ,6000euros x 5000 graves=30,000000euros well is death going to make business such a best thing?

jesmond zammit

Oct 3rd 2012, 13:16

8.000 euro? anka f mewtek jisirqek dal gvern.

carmel cassar

Oct 3rd 2012, 13:06

I am 100% for crimatiom.

James Tyrrell

Oct 3rd 2012, 13:04

Are these the same graves that GonziPN promised just before the last election? Didn't those on the waiting list receive a letter in the then as well asking them to confirm their interest? How many times can you dangle the same bit of bait and still hope to get a bite?

Joseph Brincat

Oct 3rd 2012, 13:01

3,000 graves to be built
MIND YOU I WOULD LIKE IT LIKE THIS

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/SvhnUqMgFrI/AAAAAAAA2Yo/74HyR5Qn8dI/s400/unusual_graves_and_tombstones_11.jpg

John Azzopoardi

Oct 3rd 2012, 13:01

World wide people are able to buy plots for burial for themselves and their love ones. It's their perogative. Really said for those anti cemetaries who are expanding. Same thing happenend with the beautiful and monumental Nadur Cemetary. The vast majority of people of Nadur were in favor of this project except a few people.

Mr Anthony Formosa

Oct 3rd 2012, 13:00

Fifteen million euros for approx 12,000 Sq/m of scarce land = 1250 euros/sq meter + hefty charges for the relatives to bury you in an expensive hole. Business is business.

Mark J. Magri

Oct 3rd 2012, 12:54

I buy everything I see in my life except for a grave!
GRANPINTO

John Zammit

Oct 3rd 2012, 12:52

It seems the election is nearing so lets repeat the same Promise

Robert Mifsud

Oct 3rd 2012, 12:47

Nipreferi jitfawni fil-bahar milli jinxtara €8,000 qabar!!!

D Psaila

Oct 3rd 2012, 12:36

Why does it cost 8,000 euros to build a grave (which seems to me to be the simplest of structures as its only a hole in the ground)?

And why can't we have a crematorium? We should have the right to choose between burial and cremation.

Joseph Brincat

Oct 3rd 2012, 12:31

3,000 graves to be built,
HOW ABOUT A MODERN ONE WHAT LESS SORE EYES and more space >>

http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/08/eco-skyscraper-by-vikas-pawar5-537x448.jpg

Charles DeMicoli

Oct 3rd 2012, 12:29

Another contract rewarded right before the election.

Victor Laiviera

Oct 3rd 2012, 12:29

This is a new twist to the old "voting by the dead" question.

Now we are trying to buy the votes of those who think they will die soon.

A M Bonello

Oct 3rd 2012, 12:26

We'd be better off with a crematorium.

j brincat

Oct 3rd 2012, 11:54

Wasn't the same offer made some time before the last election?




(jb)

John Scerri

Oct 3rd 2012, 11:53

How many graves are no longer being used just because extended families prefer their own and dont want their bones mingled with those of their grandparents and parents ? Graves can be opened and reused after 2 years. Bones are collected and put to one side , so what's the whole fuss .....just to say one has his or her grave.
We die.....we become dust...maybe a photo will remain or a plaque. thats all.

Joseph Pavia

Oct 3rd 2012, 11:46

When are we going to have a Crematorium? There are those of us like all my family who would prefare to be cremated than buried in the ground. Its is cheaper, cleaner, healthier and does not take any space.

vella m

Oct 3rd 2012, 11:45

Crematorium please!

Joseph Brincat

Oct 3rd 2012, 11:44

People want to buy a hole in the ground,
Ha I have a hole in my pocket is their anyone who wants to buy IT !!!!

J. Zammit

Oct 3rd 2012, 11:41

Re- introduce cremation on the Maltese Islands. I say re-introduce as there is archaeological evidence of this practice by our forefathers!

And for those who want to rot away underground underground - simply recycle the old graves!

In any case once a grave is full, it is usually cleaned out prior to the next burial with the bones and remaining matter being removed anyway. Not so final a resting place is it?

Is it a case of there being just too much money in the whole funerary business for anyone to even consider upsetting the present status quo by even mentioning a crematorium???

Joseph Brincat

Oct 3rd 2012, 11:27

3,000 graves to be built, sold at Addolorata
3,000 graves + one for the PN !!!!

m. borg (slm)

Oct 3rd 2012, 11:24

Time to introduced CREMATION.

m. borg (slm)

Oct 3rd 2012, 11:23

€15 million off the dead, that is what I call a desperate measure at a desperate time, no wonder gonzipn have been saying that they will balance their books by the end of the year and not over spend the predicted deficit of under 3% in the last budget.

Matthew Xuereb

Oct 3rd 2012, 11:14

So you need 8000 Euros to buy a 6 by 3 hole in ground???? It is pricier than buying property in Portomaso

frank grech

Oct 3rd 2012, 11:13

I am dying to buy one!!!!!

Toni Borg

Oct 3rd 2012, 11:11

Probably the price of Eur8,000 quoted last October by Dr Cassar was for a 'grave with sea view'! :)

anthony sultana

Oct 3rd 2012, 11:02

Yes we need holes in the ground, that's where we are going to end up, after all the hard work we do.

C. Attard

Oct 3rd 2012, 10:45

Who wants to buy a grave? I mean after you die you become dust...for €5,000 I would take a trip and enjoy life while I'm alive.

Matthew Grima

Oct 3rd 2012, 10:39

Never understood why people would want to buy a hole in the ground.

C Dalli

Oct 3rd 2012, 10:38

The timing says it all. Who is to blame the reader for taking this as a hasty election mode promise, one which would only meet 50% of the present demand, were it to be carried out. The figures speak out for themselves: an offer to build 3000 graves, with a waiting-list of 5000 applications at the Addolorata graveyard alone, and counting. And does this mean that taxpayers (including those on waiting lists for graves, to add insult to injury) will have to fork out 3000 euros shortfall per grave (8,000 less 5,000 to be paid by the buyer) as stated in the projected cost of each new grave? And who knows how much the *real* cost will work out to be? This would mean a public subsidy of at least 9 million euros! We are living in 2012. It is about time the authorities in Malta face their humanitarian and social obligations and allow the option of a crematorium facility. The right to choose one's form of burial should be regarded as a final and inviolable human right. And this on tiny Malta where land is available at such a premium, and where the enlargement of cemeteries inevitably has major environmental impact, just to mention one aspect: this 300-sq km rock must be one of the few places in the civilized world obstinately denying a basic and clean alternative to inhumation to their people.

Victor Vella

Oct 3rd 2012, 10:15

Issa anke mill-mejtin Gonzi PN qed jaghmel kapital.Min ha jixtriehom 5,000€ il-qabar. Tghid mhux xi erba` bazzuzli. Il-haddiem zgur ma jaffordjax ihallas dawk il-flejjes. Ara li kieku hadu 600€ bhal Gonzi u l-bella klikka ta` ngann id-domanda kienet tkun ikbar mill-provista. Issa jghidulna kemm xtraw minn dawn is-6,000 li qed jghidu.

fred sammut

Oct 3rd 2012, 10:12

Dr Cassar ahjar tara kif tnaqqas il waiting list milli twieghed l oqbra !!!!

fred sammut

Oct 3rd 2012, 10:11

ok waslet l ellezzjoni. meta ha jkollna MP bhal JPO jew Debono li ma jhalliex il Malta issir cimiretju shih u jdahhal il Kremazzjoni !!!

Charles Zammit

Oct 3rd 2012, 10:10

The 21st Century and still Malta without a Crematorium !! No wonder if graves are such a huge business !!

Mr Luciano Busuttil

Oct 3rd 2012, 09:50

Before last election, those people recieved a similar letter. After 5 years Government is still promising the same things

Kenneth Williams

Oct 3rd 2012, 09:43

Dr Cassar said that those on the waiting list will receive a letter in the coming days asking them to confirm their interest and to come forward for a promise of sale agreement.

Din il bicca xoghol diga ghamilta tlett darbiet kemm ilni applikat....

Daniel Vella

Oct 3rd 2012, 09:42

Of course 3000 graves will earn more votes than a crematorium.

Kenneth Williams

Oct 3rd 2012, 09:42

Nispera li waslu vera biex jitqassmu. Ilna kull elezzjoni nisimghu li ser jitqassmu l oqbra imma jinbidel il ministru u nergghu koppi. Jien wiehed li ilni nistenna 19 il sena ghal wiehed....anzi ghadni haj biex forsi nara fejn ser nindifen :-)) . ......jekk fuq kollox imissni wiehed ma jitqassmux bhal ma jitqassam kollox f dan il pajjiz ......

Mr Mike Farrugia

Oct 3rd 2012, 09:39

we were already promissed this a few weeks prior to the 2008 elections and nothing happened since then. Too llittle too late Dr. Cassar.