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Scotland, Oct 25: Last wish of a person has to be fulfilled at any cost. The body of a man who want his wife to be buried near him has to be exhumed so as to fulfil his final wish. As the Midlothian council denied any room for his surviving wife.

A plot for three people was bought in 1976 and was already occupied by another relative and the man died earlier this year. He wished his wife to be buried alongside his graveyard. After three days of his funeral authorities from Midlothian Council informed the family that there was no room in the plot for anyone else.

Shocked over this move by the Council officials, the relatives gave a complaint to public Service Ombudsman in Scotland stating that they should have to be informed about this prior to the funeral so that the couple could be buried somewhere else. Soon after the complaint the watchdogs upheld the Midlothian Council by ordering the Council authorities to review its burial grounds notification procedures.

The investigation of the plot showed that there was a soil collapse in the plot even before the man’s funeral which was held on January 20 this year. The earnest support of the burial staffs has helped in the smooth conduct of the funeral.

While commenting on this Ombudsman Professor Alice Brown said: “As the service was already taking place, nothing was done at that time to inform the family about the potential subsequent problems. The family’s funeral director then called on January 23 to say that the council now felt the plot was full up.

If the family came to know this in advance, they would have made alternative arrangements to ensure that the complainant’s mother and father could be buried together in a separate lair.”

The Midlothian Council has made necessary arrangement to exhume the body of the man and rebury it in a more suitable location without any cost being paid by the family. The council also showed willingness to review its burial notification procedures.

October, 25

Its cashing times for those husbands whose wives elopes with any other man, as the husband can get a compensation on behalf of the loss of their wives by the person who fled their spouse. Such instances are becoming a common sight in our society when a wife elopes with her boss or colleague. In such cases as per the US law the spurned spouse has the right to get the sum of money as compensation by a lawsuit. This alienation of affection is making the life of such person with whom the wife elopes.

Now it is asked to the US Supreme Court to reduce the damages a man should pay to the husband whose wife ran off with him. In one of such instance in Mississippi a business man paid £55,000 in punitive damages to the spurned spouse. It is known that Mississippi is the only seven US states which still entertain lawsuits by people who claim loss of their wife, as a law rooted in the antiquated notion of a woman as her husband’s property. This law on one side has given some relaxation to the spurned husband but on the other hand has made the person with whom the wife elopes restless.

According to the Mississippi court such suits is for the protection of the love, society, companionship and comfort which is the foundation of a marriage. And hope next time such instance occurs then it would be more calculative before it happens.