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criticallycrafty t1_iz4bvgs wrote

Reply to comment by Good-Tear2785 in My son hasn't eaten in 6 months. Or so I thought. by hippofucker45

People pay yearly fees for cemeteries? My family just has expensive ass plots and that’s where the cost ended.

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MisterDutch93 t1_izc3rgc wrote

This confused me as well. I’ve buried both my grandparents in the last 10 years and the only thing we had to pay for was the spot at the cemetery and the headstone. There are no fees to keep them in the ground.

Where I live there are no permanent graves anyway. They get dug up after 25-30 years to allow room for future deceased. The remains (if there are any) then get cremated and you’re allowed to take them. I think it’s a good system because most people tend to forget about graves, especially when the generations tending to them die off.

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criticallycrafty t1_izc4qen wrote

Oh wow! I’m glad they don’t do that here. My grandpa has been dead since 1991 and my aunt since 1984 and I visit their graves all the time. Lol. I’d be hysterically upset. I was born in 1988.

A lot of my family is buried in the same cemetery because they bought plots a LONG time ago. My grandparents were born in 1917 and 1919 and their siblings were obviously born around then too. They bought a bunch of plots and split them up. And we’re cramming people in them now. 🤣 The plots are like 100x more expensive than when my grandparents bought them and they let you put one body and one set of ashes in a grave or 3 sets of ashes in the grave. My aunt was cremated and my grandparents were not. I don’t like the idea of dying so I didn’t want to make a decision but I will be dead and it’s more important I have plans for whoever has to deal with it after because my dad didn’t have any plans and that was 20 year old ME. I was not equipped for that. He got a free plot at another cemetery (parents divorced) because he was a veteran. So I am being cremated and me, my mom, and my aunt’s widower plan to be cremated and buried in the plots. Tough to think of but I know, realistically, it will not matter to me because I’ll be dead.

My grandma died in 2010 and she was my last living grandparent. None of those graves have required more money to upkeep. Which is good because I’m poor. 😂

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