I read recently that in Greece, graves are not forever - they are rented for a few years and then the law requires that the body be exhumed to allow for other burials, while the bones of the exhumed are put either in an ossuary (like a file cabinet for the dead) or tossed in a digestive pit, though these are now so full that another option will have to be found.
unburying the dead
unburying the dead
unburying the dead
I read recently that in Greece, graves are not forever - they are rented for a few years and then the law requires that the body be exhumed to allow for other burials, while the bones of the exhumed are put either in an ossuary (like a file cabinet for the dead) or tossed in a digestive pit, though these are now so full that another option will have to be found.