There is a surge of cemetery space and graves stacking up in Portugal, causing concern among the population due to overcrowding and an increase in deaths among the living.

The crowded and often unkempt cemeteries are turning into mausoleums and tomes with the deceased turning into mummies and refusing to decompose.

This situation has taken an unexpected turn for the Catholic and Orthodox believers who believe that the bodies of some saints don’t decompose, but church authorities are open for suggestions because they have no idea why the dead are mysteriously mummified in Portugal. And brace yourself for the reason why this is causing serious problems for cemeteries, morgues, and families of the deceased.

In earlier times, deceased could be buried before the need to exhume arose, but the shortage of spaces became severe and from the booming baby-boomer generation, many years after their death, bodies were rapidly accumulating in small church graveyards and mummies corpses not fully or partially decomposed.

Imagine going to the graveyard of a class relative for the burial of another relative and finding the first one completely preserved many years after his death – very surprising peculiar things are happening.

One of the reasons for this is that some bodies are mummifying could be variations in size, muscle mass and fat content vary a lot in the same environment. Furthermore, Bessa says the weather conditions in that area, and between different cemeteries might be relevant to what they ate, whether they smoked or took certain medications.

In the upcoming time, however, some bodies might have hastened their after-death, consumed even in the Afterlife – Decomposition and Mummification could be related to what they ate, whether the deceased smoked or took certain medications.