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At many graveyards you now lease a grave for a certain number of years, not in perpetuity. Not really much different to that. No idea what they do with the bodi

• logfromblammo 8y ago
  Traditionally, the previous occupant is exhumed and their bones deposited in the ossuary building. I imagine a modern cemetery just quietly trashes the headstone when the lease expires, and re-leases the plot at full price, as though no one had already been buried there. I'm not sure when the gravesite lease for ethical business practice expires.
• nicthesailor 8y ago
  Apparently in Greece they dig the bodies up after three years and put the bones in an ossuary. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34920068 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34920068