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Cemeteries
asop
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Is there a length of time that a grave is "recycled"?
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Never heard of such a thing around here.
I have dug "up" a few from years ago that were long forgotten. Just a few bits and pieces of metal from caskets, hinges and handles, and such. Most often a child's final resting place.
Just yesterday I read that if you choose burial rather than cremation in the Netherlands, after x number of years they dig the grave up and use it over again. The time period is relatively short. 10 to 20 years. The article I was reading didn't say what they did with the body. Cremation??
Cemeteries I'm familiar with are "perpetual care". That sounds like forever, especially above ground mausoleums.
Here in the United States when you buy a plot it’s yours for ever, like buying land. Now I read once in Japan if you’re buried you can only occupy the plot for two years then you are dug up and cremated, and the the plot is reused. So I guess you could say that your only renting the plot in Japan.
Might as Well do it Vertical ,,,,,,
I have seenon youtube and TV
A lot of country's limit the time and will remove the remains from the grave and move to allow new occupant seems to be each Rea has its own time limit
Including the cripts
As far as here in the USA I have only heard of cemeteries being moved for major construction sites
My parents told of a small cemetery south edge of town that was moved but rhey still found remains when they started digging for foundations dung into unmarked and unknown graves from years ago fenced a very small area and place a marker that a cemetery was there
I am sure it happens way more often so many were unmarked maybe a rock of a make shift cross thar had Long ago rotted away
I have a older brother died at a month old his and many around his grave in a small church yard just had has a stack of field stones as markers
Mom and dad had just married had zero funds for a market as common in a lot of areas not just Tennessee
I need to go visot its been 30 or so yrs since I was their and also a old family grave yard not far from it I have been told called leach mountain
Just one of the reasons I am really leaning on just being cremated
Just Google it I am sure countless articles on the subject of recycling graves and mosuleams
I have seen many videos on the subject including the grave diggers reopening a grave
Never heard of that... It would be disrespectful.
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This is how it is in Europe especially Germany and Austria, families lease grave sites for a specific period of time, usually from 15 to 30 years. And, if a family is unable or unavailable to renew the lease, the grave’s contents are removed and the grave site reverts to state ownership and may be reused. I'm glad I live in the US and OWN my plot.
On a similar note where my Father in law is buried in the US the Cemetery wanted 25 Thousand dollars for Perpetual care of a small family plot. There are actually some family plots that are over run with weeds with headstones falling next to some areas that are well kept.
Even if not one single person is born after today, there are still over eight BILLION graves that would be needed. Perpetual care cemeteries are simple unsustainable.