Eli5 what happens if a cemetery runs out of space to bury bodies?

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Eli5 what happens if a cemetery runs out of space to bury bodies?

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So many talk about cemeteries that reuse plots. Here is how it goes if they *don’t*.

Every cemetery plot purchased, a portion of the money goes into a trust to keep the cemetery running indefinitely. So even when the cemetery is full and not brining in new money that trust will keep running things for decades. This pays for maintenance, land taxes, potentially some full-time or part-time staff. They then open a new cemetery to continue the process for new bodies. What happens if the trust runs out of money? Often nothing, quite litterally. No more money for services and the township doesn’t really want to seize land chock full of corpses.