I often wondered about that. Humans have been around for 100,000 years or so and we’ve been putting people in graves for a much smaller portion of that, but it seems we would have an awful lot of graves at this point. But we don’t. You don’t come across cemeteries very often and when you do they’re not enormous.
SO WHERE ARE ALL THE BODIES?
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did you think graves were perpetual?
I’m sorry to bake your noodle on this one, but when you get buried you’ll get 6 years tops before the site is recycled for the next person.
Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
What?
My great grandfather’s grave is still around and he died in the ‘80s, in a cemetery in a highly populated part of my city. Right next to him is his son that was killed in Vietnam in the ‘60s.
Depends on region of course, but I think most graves are around for much longer than 6 years.
needanke@feddit.org 1 month ago
Where I live you usually pay the grave for 20 years at the time of the burial. If you still want to keep it after you have to pay to extend it.