Over 3,000,000 people die in the U.S. alone every year. I get that there are other options than burying like cremation, but it seems logical that we would have a shortage of cemetery space. Further, you don’t see cemeteries expanding or new ones being built.
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I live in a small village in England dating back to Saxon times. The church was here in 1215 when the magna carts was signed as some soldiers got carried away and destroyed it. Most the graves in the churchyard are from the 17/1800s.
They built a second small chapel with a bigger graveyard 3/4 of a mile down the road and the last grave I have seen there was the 80s but it may have newer ones.
There is now a third cemetery on the outskirts that I saw them extending at the start of COVID….there’s not much room left there now!
In a lot of places they bury someone on top of a old plot. Ashes have become very common now and as there’s very little spare land about.
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