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Public Law 113-154, [1] informally known as the Protect Cemeteries Act, is a U.S. federal law which amended the findings of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 by including the desecration of cemeteries among the various violations of the right to religious freedom.
Additional cemeteries were set up after the United States Civil War by Edmund Burke Whitman. [7] Congress passed additional laws to establish and protect national cemeteries in 1867. [8] The National Cemetery Administration lists a total of 73 Civil War-Era National Cemeteries from 1861 to 1868. [9]
The law authorized nonprofit entities to establish cemeteries on rural land and sell burial plots, and it exempted from property taxation land that was so used. [3] A few rural cemeteries had been established in New York before the new law was passed (including Green-Wood Cemetery in 1838 and Albany Rural Cemetery in 1844), but the law's passage soon led to the establishment of more new ...
The list of cemeteries in the United States includes both active and historic sites, and does not include pet cemeteries. At the end of the list by states, cemeteries in territories of the United States are included. The list is for notable cemeteries and is not an attempt to list all the cemeteries in the United States.
Cemeteries as public spaces: 'A new, old thing' Sarah Chavez is executive director for The Order of the Good Death, a nonprofit founded by Caitlin Doughty, a mortician and writer who's advocated ...
Among the goals of the act is the preservation and protection of long neglected African American cemeteries and addressing the discrepancy in funding for their restoration. [ 4 ] [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Though the African-American Burial Grounds Preservation Act was passed, it has not been funded, and is presently dormant.
Jewish law does not bar the use of burial vaults or liners, and their use is permitted where law or a cemetery requires them. [17] But Morrison David Bial argues that burial vaults are antithetical to traditional Judaism, in part because they deny the reality of death (e.g., inhibit decomposition of the body) and in part because they are ...
A natural cemetery, eco-cemetery, green cemetery or conservation cemetery, is a new style of cemetery as an area set aside for natural burials (with or without coffins). Natural burials are motivated by a desire to be environmentally conscious with the body rapidly decomposing and becoming part of the natural environment without incurring the ...