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Do they choose the graveyard shift?

From:  "Liana"

Do the cemetery workers choose the graveyard shift?

Kaisbro did a bunch of research and reported back to headquarters with this summary: 

Cemetery workers in England started running out of places to bury people. They would dig up coffins after so many years and reuse the graves. In reopening these coffins, about 1 in 25 were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they tied a string on the decease's wrist and led it through the coffin lid and up through the ground and tied it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night and listen for the bell. 'Graveyard shift' also refers to the practice of sitting there overnight to guard against the grave robbers digging up the bodies!

brad added to the mystery with this thought: 

no they don't choose the grave yard shift. it is a known fact that ground is more moist at night which use to make it easier to dig in, but now that we have machines to do the work they can do it at any time

Casey finally concluded the discussion with this: 

I have the belief that cemetery workers choose to work the graveyard shift. Everyone has a choice in every move that they make in their life. The cemetery workers are being proactive because they are "choosing" to work the shift. Nobody can actually make them work the shift if they don't want to do it.

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