No. Typically you only rent a plot in a graveyard for 10-30 years, and unless you or your heir(s) extend the lease, the graves will be dug up and used again. By that time most of the old casket and body have disintegrated to a pile of crumbling bones. Those will either be taken out and fully incinerated, or if the decay is progressed to a point where not much is left to begin with, a thin layer of soil covers the remnants and the new casket will simply be put on top.
It’s also getting more and more “fashionable” to get incinerated right away, so that’s really a non-issue.
Utterly deranged way of dealing with the dead imo; stick em in the ground for a little bit like they’re kimchi? Just skip ahead to the incineration part for me, thanks
No. Typically you only rent a plot in a graveyard for 10-30 years, and unless you or your heir(s) extend the lease, the graves will be dug up and used again. By that time most of the old casket and body have disintegrated to a pile of crumbling bones. Those will either be taken out and fully incinerated, or if the decay is progressed to a point where not much is left to begin with, a thin layer of soil covers the remnants and the new casket will simply be put on top.
It’s also getting more and more “fashionable” to get incinerated right away, so that’s really a non-issue.
There are places in the world with a standard practice of forever plots.
For example, I don’t think it’s common in NZ for plots to be a time period before disinterment.
Utterly deranged way of dealing with the dead imo; stick em in the ground for a little bit like they’re kimchi? Just skip ahead to the incineration part for me, thanks
Does this apply to military cemeteries as well?
No idea, tbh. I know next to nothing about military stuff.