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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There’s a strong economic incentive for cremation, since the remains can be respectfully interred in a fraction of the space of a casket.

There are some U.S. military cemeteries for which the deceased needs to qualify with a certain level of service. They will often set the bar lower for cremains than for caskets.

I know an old timer who qualified for an urn at Arlington but said he was going to be buried at the veterans’ cemetery in San Diego, “because I like to stretch my legs out.”