ELi5: Why aren’t cadavers overflowing from cemeteries?

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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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In the UK they sometimes inject the graves with lyme to speed up the decomposition process.

I was amazed the first time I saw a graveyard in both the US and Australia. The spaces between them were massive. Crowded cemeteries are the norm here

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