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Re:Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost... by askvictor on Monday May 06, 2019 @06:39AM (#19838197)
At many graveyards you now lease a grave for a certain number of years, not in perpetuity. Not really much different to that. No idea what they do with the bodies once the lease is up...
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Re:Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost... by logfromblammo on Monday May 06, 2019 @10:38AM (#19839786)
Traditionally, the previous occupant is exhumed and their bones deposited in the ossuary building. I imagine a modern cemetery just quietly trashes the headstone when the lease expires, and re-leases the plot at full price, as though no one had already been buried there.

I'm not sure when the gravesite lease for ethical business practice expires.

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Re:Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost... by nicthesailor on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:06PM (#19841425)
Apparently in Greece they dig the bodies up after three years and put the bones in an ossuary.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34920068

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