NY pet cemetery order
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June 12, 2011, Sunday
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A STATE agency has told New York's animal cemeteries to stop burying the ashes of pet owners alongside their beloved cats, dogs and parakeets.
The order from New York's Division of Cemeteries comes as a growing number of Americans are deciding to share their final resting place with their pets.
The ruling has blocked at least one burial at the 115-year-old Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, which claims to be the United States' oldest.
Rhona Levy, 61, who prearranged to have her ashes interred there along with five pets, was upset by the order.
"The only loved ones I have in my life right now are my pets, which I consider my children."
Hartsdale was ordered to stop taking in human ashes - it never allowed intact human remains - on February 8, three days after it was featured in an Associated Press story about human burials in pet cemeteries. The order was issued statewide in April.
She said that remains buried in human cemeteries benefit from state protections more so than if they are buried at pet cemeteries.
The order from New York's Division of Cemeteries comes as a growing number of Americans are deciding to share their final resting place with their pets.
The ruling has blocked at least one burial at the 115-year-old Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, which claims to be the United States' oldest.
Rhona Levy, 61, who prearranged to have her ashes interred there along with five pets, was upset by the order.
"The only loved ones I have in my life right now are my pets, which I consider my children."
Hartsdale was ordered to stop taking in human ashes - it never allowed intact human remains - on February 8, three days after it was featured in an Associated Press story about human burials in pet cemeteries. The order was issued statewide in April.
She said that remains buried in human cemeteries benefit from state protections more so than if they are buried at pet cemeteries.
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