Let’s dig him up to find out
Lol u r sick!
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/mourners-traumatised-after-corpse-explodes-20130608-2nx3h.html#:~:text=In%20the%20heat%20of%20late,summer%20insects%20drawn%20to%20it.
Mourners traumatised after corpse explodesNo amount of air freshener could hide the stench of death. In the heat of late January, a corpse exploded in a crypt at Preston mausoleum in Melbourne's north, oozing fluids through an inadequate seal and down the granite faces of the vaults below.
Despite a clean-up, the smell persisted, made all the more unpleasant for visitors by the swarms of summer insects drawn to it.
''It was foul,'' says Angela Costello*, who was at the Mediterranean-style mausoleum days later to help choose a burial vault for a deceased family member. ''I'll never forget it.''
Complaints were lodged with state authorities and Darebin Council. Cemetery management has confirmed another incident of leakage from a separate crypt in recent weeks.
Preston Cemetery. CREDIT: MAL FAIRCLOUGH
Such incidents are disturbing enough in themselves but they have also drawn community attention to bigger problems with the design, construction and fitout of the third and final phase of the southern hemisphere's largest mausoleum.
Concerns about the project - and a string of other issues around management of cemeteries in Melbourne's northern and western suburbs - have also been raised with Fairfax Media by a group of current and former employees of the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.
In the case of the Preston mausoleum, management is grappling with a headache inherited in 2010, when the Brumby government replaced a string of local authorities, including the Preston Cemetery Trust, with two mega-trusts charged with managing cemeteries in the city's north and south.
Cemetery management acknowledges shortcomings with some crypts and their preparation by contractors in the third stage of the sprawling Bundoora complex, developed in recognition of the burial traditions of local families of southern European background, Italians in particular.
