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If a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemetery (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just have it drill downward, put some more dirt on the coffins, add another layer of coffins, and repeat!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 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.