Clarify Mass_grave definition

[Stephen-Gates]

From an email conversation with Rob Warren...

Me:I find the definition of Mass Grave surprising- “True if the grave contains more than the remains of one person. This limit is arbitrary and needs debate.” This would make all family graves, “mass graves” which is not what most people would expect. Some references suggest “a burial site containing the remains, often commingled, of numerous persons. The grave is often in the form of a trench, pit, well organised or sectioned and with variable body densities”. Is “family grave” needed?

Rob: My opinion is that a family grave is really a 'family plot'; the family members are buried within a set area but with individual graves, markers and coffins. Originally, my thinking was that mass graves were mass burial pits where bodies where throw in without regard to identity or status, as with plague pits or war crimes sites. I'm willing to move on this.

I suggest that the Mass_grave definition is clarified to align to Rob's reply above, e.g "A mass graves is a burial pit where multiple bodies were thrown in without regard to identity or status. For example: plague pits or war crimes sites."

The definition of Grave - "A single or mass grave with the remains of human beings" adequately supports a family grave or plot where multiple human remains are in a single grave. At Toowong Cemetery graves may be reused by direct descendants under certain conditions.

[rwarren2]

Fixed in 616e241

[Stephen-Gates]

That would be https://github.com/muninn/graves/commit/616e2416d484d2762cbfc3e21a55d4270d2f81cb in the 1.5 branch for clarification 😉