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Most cemeteries already "stack" - sometimes 4 deep. These are "family plots" and they are stacked - the first to pass simply is on the bottom level.
But because people want the cemetery to be relatively close to where they live (and thus in urban areas), this makes burial expensive (heck, around here, land sells for over one million bucks per acre - often more) and then there is the issue of watering and mowing that lawn (with VERY expensive imported water) for what - 100 years? 500 years? 1000 years?
People complain about the high cost of housing in the USA (the average home here is over $600,000.... many family houses are over one million) and the long commutes because the land is all used up.... and then we have these 80 acre cemeteries where we could build 800 condos or 2000 apartments. Back when there were fewer people on the planet than there now is in metro Los Angeles..... back when land was endless.... putting a body in the ground and consecrating it for that purpose (for as long as any remember, lol) burial was practical. I'm not sure it makes sense today, unless we are willing to put those cemeteries a couple of hour drive away out in the middle of the desert (with no landscaping) and consecrate it only for a century.
- Josiah
PS. Around here we've had two large golf courses close in the past few months, the owners desiring to build condos and apartments on the land valued at well over $1,000,000 per acre... the communities around them are fighting this (liking the open space of the golf course as well as that recreational use) and complaining about added traffic, but the owners wanting to make a HUGE profit by developing the land into thousands of housing units very, very, very sorely needed and desired. Right now, both are closed and turning to weeds as the legal fight goes on.... it seems golf courses may well be history in urban areas. Perhaps they should be. As perhaps should be cemeteries.
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