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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Let’s do the math! Estimating that 200 million people have ever died in the history of the US, making the conservative assumption that almost all of them were buried, and given that the standard burial plot size is 8 feet by 3 feet, that works out to a total national cemetery area about the size of Chicago.
Which is a lot of land, but not enough to worry about.
It’s also 5% of the area of the country’s golf courses, so we can just use the 18th hole to bury people and we’re good for another century.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=200000000+*+%288+feet+*+3+feet%29+%2F+area+of+Chicago
https://danoshinsky.com/2009/07/02/how-much-space-do-golf-courses-take-up-in-america/
Edit: [link](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=200000000+*+%288+feet+*+3+feet%29+%2F+area+of+Chicago) because Reddit is stupid.
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