Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Carrollton council says no to crematory
CARROLLTON — Worried about a "nightmare of traffic" -- and perhaps, just nightmares themselves -- the Carrollton City Council voted down the plea to obtain a special use permit to place a crematory inside a new Carrollton funeral home. Mayor Ron Branson tells the group he isn't judging those who prefer cremation as their designated postfuneral choice. And many noted that there is a need for a crematory -- but NIMBY.
To patch up the wound, those interviewed say that John P. Brooks, the owner of North Dallas Funeral Home, is still a good guy.
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Travis Bush says:
Everyone knows that Carrollton is full of the undead...who needs a crematorium?
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alexander troup says:
The Forth Reich needs a place to create human ashes.....comming soon to your local ....nightmare...As the movie was in theme...but ...Funeral homes in the ashes business, times are tuff and it cost to get a decent burial....and so the topic of excess is my early pun, to this comment...A/T, ..Hard times and someone has to pay and be burned dead....
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Jesus Valadez says:
The fu....
It's not like they take the bodies outside and burn them. What the are them complaining about?!
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Jesus Valadez says:
lol @ my grammar
I dunno how that happened.
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Travis Bush says:
Get thee to school, Jesus!
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James Scott says:
"Opponents urged the council to prohibit the crematory on environmental grounds and because of the stigma they said the nearby neighborhood would acquire."
Am I missing something here? What is the stigma associated with cremation? If they don't want a funeral home at all, I can see that - but what does the addition of a crematorium do? If anything, it's a little less creepy b/c you don't have the big hearse with a casket + body driving around.
Oh, and how dare those pesky dead people and their grieving relatives cause a potential minor traffic inconvenience to you - what a nightmare for you, being alive and all.
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Travis Bush says:
Loss of significant monies for the city too, one imagines.
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Jesus Valadez says:
"Get thee to school, Jesus! "
I just got back from Differential Equations!
What I was trying to say was "What the @#$# are they complaining about?!
The asterisks didn't show up. :(
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