Family Tree Crap: What happens to your land after you're dead and gone?
This is what happens. They cremate people on the fertile soil that you once grew your livelihood on. I just uncovered an old picture, that is a photocopy from one of my creations (not cremations). It lists Pink's Farm - once occupied by my ancestor, William Atwood - is now the site of Kew Crematorium. So, I googled "kew crematorium" and found Mortlake Crematorium. This location makes more than perfect sense in my family tree. I think Kew and Mortlake were probably once the same land. Somewhere though, there was a story told that the family sold land, or donated land to the royal family for the Royal Botanical Gardens of Kew. I guess they just sowed it for a bunch of dead bodies and a furnace.
signed, the willow
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