I was actually serious about the multifunctional usage of the rec field.

We live in a crowded city and an increasingly crowded world. If resources can be used for more than one function, why not explore the option. Same is being explored for using the 'to be closed' Lewisham libraries to see if they can serve additional purposes than they already do so they can survive.

It will still provide somewhere for the grieving to visit and pay their respects, yet also allow the living to continue enjoyment. I would not find it disrespectful to the dead, but that is a personal opinion. In fact, they are guaranteed visitors almost every day unlike most lonely and untended burial plots. And having this opinion is not due to being insulated from death, both sets of grandparents died when I was quite young (btween 8 and 16). One set were cremated and the other buried (in a country where they reuse plots and put bones together in another place). My best friend died when I was 31. I still remember all of them in my heart but have never found it a requirement to visit a place to remember/ grieve - again, that works for me.