Best/bust/bast in Europe priority list update: naharqu l-mejtin bhalma jaghmlu fl-Ewropa
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April 23, 2014 at 11:18am
Who cares if you’re out of a job and business revenue is heading into freefall? WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A CREMATORIUM PERHAPS! We’re going to burn our dead if we want to, just like they do in Europe.
Now when Joe’s husband Salvu dies, he and their adopted daughter Shaziannaranray can cremate him and keep his ashes in a jar from Gauci tal-Linef, then go out and shoot some flamingos while collecting unemployment benefit.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140423/local/updated-government-exploring-new-funeral-options.516097
Priceless !
Evarist Bartolo is proud that his party is re-writing history. Does he even know what that means or are they bragging about it too now.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/comment/blogs/38226/civil_rights_for_all#.U1ePJ_mSySp
I take my hat off to whoever said that there is no upper limit to stupidity.
So we now have a Labour Party Minister of Education who does not know that to “rewrite history” means to falsify it by retouching it and that is nothing to be proud of.
Evarist Bartolo is one of the few politicians in Europe still calling for a ‘multicultural society’.
You see, given that he cannot distinguish between ‘multicultural’ and ‘multiracial’ he must have thought that ‘multicultural’ sounds trendier, unaware that even the Tony-Mr-Diversity-Blairites are now admitting that multiculturalism has pushed up social division and strife.
A mono-cultural, multiracial society, it is now believed, is the ideal, and we’re taught that it’s good to be idealistic.
At least until the age of 10.
My sentiments exactly. The ship is sinking and we are sweeping the water from the deck. Unbelievable
Kiss your cares goodbye sweety, we have cremation now, what else do we need? Jo is brilliant – such genius.
What Joseph Muscat is failing to see is that with Malta’s limited population, people cannot ever die fast enough to make a crematorium economically feasible, never mind the fact that the vast majority would still opt for conventional burial.
While it doesn’t mean it justifies any of the blatant iced-buns, the damage to the image of Malta or the poor decisions related to the economy, I do like the option of cremation on the menu.
Naqbel mal cremation. Mhux kullhadd ghandu qabar. Apparti l- hafna glied li hemm bejn il- familjari fuq min ghandu dritt jindifen, min ma jridx jindifen magenb huh jew missieru jew sid ta qabar jissigillah wara mewtu biex ma juzah hadd aktar. Kollha nitilghu dritt il-genna sejrin
The question is not whether one is for or against cremation. The question one needs to ask when it comes to Jo of Castille and to the PL is who is getting the contract for a crematorium.
One has to see whether this is another pre-electoral promise made to individuals close to the PL and to the Muscat family. We have to wait and see to whom the iced-bun is going.
I don’t see whats wrong with different methods of burial. Whether its done elsewhere or not doesn’t matter. we do need a solution to the ever increasing population at the Addolorata.
As for the jar I love the comment also the typical name that would be given by certain people.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27108910
The headline is priceless.
Robert Musumeci addressed the press conference. He’s an expert in the field. He sleeps with a mummy.
Brilliant.
The law on burials, dating back more than a century and a half, forbids the use of loculi and makes it mandatory that all burials be made in the ground.
This is certainly not in keeping with many other European countries where loculi are in use e.g. in Italy.
If dwellings have become high-rise, why not graves too?
In Italy, one can see attractive loculi graves in many cemeteries. As long as the structures are built well and maintained regularly, there should be no health hazards.
[Daphne – Maltese graves are reused. If you imagine that family graves contain all members of a family, you are mistaken. They are cleaned out before each interment. They generally contain only the most recent one.]
I don’t know exactly what they do in Malta but in Italy the family bones are eventually mixed together in their family grave. Those most recently buried are allowed to decompose sufficiently before adding them to the rest.
For correctness, Maltese graves are not cleaned after every burial, but after maybe 5 to 10.
With the passage of time, the coffins and the bodies will turn into soil-like matter.
The big bones (and synthetic material from the dresses) are the last to disintegrate. When cleaning is done, any pieces of recognizable bones found in the grave are collected and left in a shallow hole at the bottom of the grave. Anything else is taken away.
[Daphne – Bones do not disintegrate, no matter how much time passes. Entire skeletons are found intact after many thousands of years.]
I think I shall visit Addolorata Cemetery with a rake and a sieve. Think of the countless cufflinks that must have been thrown into the compost heap.
There is no real objection to cremation. But, as you said many times, Joseph Muscat is full of spite.
What are the betting odds against the idea that cremation (not to mention same-sex marriage) is being introduced to spite the Catholic Church?
Following in the steps of Mintoff, Joseph would love to renew the battle with the ecclesiastical authorities.
But times have changed and, like Don Quixote, Jo will be tilting against imaginary giants and windmills.
The Catholic Church has no problem with cremation.
My own mother was cremated and she received the last rites of her Church just before her death and a “body present” funeral mass was held at her Catholic Church.
Sometime later the urn containing her ashes was buried in a grave of a large Roman Catholic cemetery.
All this did not happen in Malta, of course.
I saw a family grave cleaned out to bury murdered Carmelo Cl*rk in the summer of 1964.
There were five rotted coffins exhumed, all stacked into each other with the topmost coffin containing all the bones and mouldering cloth from burial suits and some of the largest grinning skulls that I ever saw from the contents of the bottom coffins.
The whole point here is that as long as people do not start questioning how the economy is doing, then all is fine for government. First it was public transport, then hospital, then re-shuffle, then same sex marriages and adoption, now graveyards…
It needs a bit of time to see and feel the full effects of the decisions taken on businesses and the economy (be it nasty or not too bad).
Meanwhile, I don’t mind implementing some catch-up policies, which PN didn’t have the guts to handle.
Whether it will be implemented correctly is another matter all together – I treat it as a bridge we’ll cross when we get there; at least we are making steps forward on these topics.
And all the while, Malta itself is steadily heading for the scrapyard.
Be prepared for a cremated economy. Only a matter of time.
Any moment now and it will be a campaign for same-sex graveyards.
Same-sex marijuana crematoriums.
Because Malta is going higher and higher.
I think you should call the dole what the Maltese call it: ‘ir-relief’.
I mean it conveys the idea so much better now doesn’t it?
I strongly disagree with the name chosen for Joe and Salvu’s adopted daughter.
I am adamant they will christen her JoSa.
Cremation is a good thing especially if one can have some smoke coming out of a tall chimney. Marsaxlokk and Birzebbuga are good candidates for the crematorium I presume.
Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZGY0wPAnus
Our government in action.
This possibility has already been explored and was not found to be viable. Demand will not be sufficient.
Correct me if I am wrong but cremation is still not accepted by the Catholic Church.
[Daphne – I don’t think the Roman Catholic Church has anything against cremation.]
As long as we do not talk about twigs and wigs, everything goes, apparently.
Did you ask yourself why the same policy prohibits the building of new cemeteries? And severely limits the extension to the existing ones?
This will make a crematorium a very profitable business being the sole option for many people.
I suggest that you look at an application for a crematorium that way back was submitted to the MEPA: check out the case officer and the applicant.
It may be that the CEO is expanding his already considerable business empire.
Taht il-Labour la ssib fejn tahdem meta tkun haj u lanqas post fejn tistrieh meta tmut.
Aljenazzjoni ohra mill-problemi gravi li mhux kapaci jsolvi Jo.
L-importanti li n-nies ikollha fuq xhiex titkellem u f’hiex teghda minflok ma jara’ kif jaghmel u jmexxi l-pajjiz il quddiem tassew.
Maybe this is another one of Jo’s ingenious ways of generating energy for free, thereby subsidizing our energy bills.
Toni Abela was adamant yesterday: we ain’t seen nothing yet.
They’ll teach us to be truly European and not a ‘conservative backwater’.
To think we were the only country, along with Germany, that demonstrated greatest resilience during the credit crunch.
Meantime, anyone putting up their flat for sale doesn’t even get the one phone call. So much for kick-starting the economy.
One need only take a sneak peek behind premium automobile sales showrooms, storage areas packed full with uberwagens gathering dust.
The problem Muscat has is the country he inherited; it’s not the one he imagined, everyone had their business, an intricate network of services leading to export, supported by fragmented central government.
EU funding employed to implement development and take SMEs (this country’s reality) to the next step, fully structured autonomy and knowhow.
When Muscat put that young Borg freshman in charge he simply stalled everything. This is not a place where companies expect to wait for pharaonic projects any more.
Busuttil is being accused of not having any ‘concrete proposal’, and why should he if it takes on average all of six months for the PM to acknowledge the minor symptoms of his passport malaise?
You are so funny and so clever to be able to put a whole kawlata in a few sentences. But it’s not funny at all, really. It’s tal-biki.
The first crematorium will be set up at the ground floor of the Glasshouse in 2018.