24th July 2005, 06:37 PM
If only life was as simple as the CoE guidlines. Heres an ethical dillema for you. A recent discovery of a burial ground adjacent to a C of E Church evaluated prior to development. C of E wades in and says this is clearly a case of the churchyard boundary having moved. Chancellor rules that it is consecrated ground, therefore outside the jurisdiction of the disused burial ground act and the C of E gives permission to develop. Carbon dating now says the bodies are 7th- 8th century, so not C of E. Do we go along with the C of E and exhume? what about the beliefs of the dead? how does that fit in with the guidlines saying we should show due deference and respect? Do I go and get a Catholithic priest?