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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When a gravesite is ignored (be it because the family of the dead is themselves dead or has moved) it’s surprising how fast a grave can be lost once no one is there to care for it. Hell I actually did a research project in college documenting the remains of a whole church gravesite in Philly that was completely abandoned and only discovered when a construction crew started digging up bones

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