In 1836 the community started contemplating opening its own cemetery since a cholera epidemic in the region led to a temporary ban on transporting corpses.
Ironically, the last automobile produced by the dying giant was a RAF-3311, designed to transport corpses.
Corpse roads provided a practical means for transporting corpses, often from remote communities, to cemeteries that had burial rights, such as parish churches and chapels of ease.
I can't see a professional mother running the kids to arena ball practice in the afternoon, then Daddy transporting corpses in it at night.
"No." "There are strict rules about transporting corpses on other than the service elevators."
Two oral accounts of transporting corpses are included in Liao Yiwu's The Corpse Walker.
Other roadways developed to meet the needs of pilgrims visiting shrines, such as Walsingham, and for transporting corpses from isolated communities to local graveyards.
A northern gateway called Miandrivahiny retains its well-preserved stone disk and was one of two entrances used whenever it was necessary to transport corpses in or out of the site; the second gateway for corpses was Amboara.
In the autumn of 1942, Matthes shot two prisoners because at the end of the work day they had not properly cleaned to his satisfaction the stretcher which they used to transport corpses.
When a number of these had been animated, the new zombies took over the labor of transporting corpses, and the pace accelerated.