[LrlynJy]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

In Mexico, you pay to keep your relatives in the ground at a lot of cemeteries. No rent = body comes back out of the ground.

Same here in the Philippines, Most part at least. but usually, if you cant pay annual fee, they will take the dead out of its own tomb and move it to a common tomb with hundreds of other sacked remains. if it is still unclaimed after a period of time, they bury it all in a mass grave.

[William May]

Originally Posted by LrlynJy ↗

Same here in the Philippines, Most part at least. but usually, if you cant pay annual fee, they will take the dead out of its own tomb and move it to a common tomb with hundreds of other sacked remains. if it is still unclaimed after a period of time, they bury it all in a mass grave.

They do that in France as well. There are huge Ossuaries under the city of Paris, where there are millions of bones stacked up.

When I visited New Orleans, back in the 1970's, I visited a graveyard, and there was a guy opening a tomb up, getting it ready for the next. He told me that they give you X years, and then someone else's casket goes on top. When I peeked inside, there was just a flat bed of debris. I didn't see any bones or clothing. So I guess this happens all over the world.