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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It’s not as much land as it seems.

8×3=24 square feet per grave. Times 3 million is 2.58 square miles. The continental US is 3 million square miles.

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