Australia's death count could double in 50 years, and our cemeteries are likely to run out of space well beforehand. So what's the answer? One Australian state might have the solution.
The process of reuse is a regulated one. "We have to try and contact the family [and] write to the internment right holder a year before it expires," Mr Pitt says, and families can extend the internment right if they wish to.
"Then we can do what's called a 'lift and deepen', where we dig down and recover the skeletal remains, and put them [further] down at three meters in the same grave and they stay there forever."Mr Pitt says at one Adelaide cemetery about 200 to 300 graves are reused per year. "I think the South Australian model has really been leading the way," Dr Gould says, arguing the opt-out arrangement is key to its success.
But she argues that in most cases, perpetuity – having a grave site forever – is simply chosen "because that's what everyone else is doing".
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