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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Sometimes they resell empty plots they think are forgotten. I had a relative attempt to bury his wife in a plot beside her parents. They had paid for the plots sixty years ago, but the cemetery had resold the plot and someone else was in it. He had the receipt, but the cemetery wouldn’t move the body. He had to be content with a different plot offered in compensation.

If he didn’t have the receipt he would have gotten nothing.