Read the fine prints. Even places with forever promises stipulate something like a maximum of 100 years if there’s no survivor to extend the contract. For all practical intents and purposes that is forever for a family, roughly 4 generations at which point people start being forgotten.
But there’s no mention of any sort of time limits on Auckland Council’s website about their cemeteries. Only one is an exclusive right prior to burial over use of the plot of 60 years which is intended to allow people to reserve a plot near family members.
But it appears correct to assume a burial has no specific term length and doesn’t expire. Disinterment after even 100 years not being a standard procedure. That said, the country is only about 200 years old.
Read the fine prints. Even places with forever promises stipulate something like a maximum of 100 years if there’s no survivor to extend the contract. For all practical intents and purposes that is forever for a family, roughly 4 generations at which point people start being forgotten.
tbh I don’t care.
But there’s no mention of any sort of time limits on Auckland Council’s website about their cemeteries. Only one is an exclusive right prior to burial over use of the plot of 60 years which is intended to allow people to reserve a plot near family members.
But it appears correct to assume a burial has no specific term length and doesn’t expire. Disinterment after even 100 years not being a standard procedure. That said, the country is only about 200 years old.
That’s not always the case though. There is a graveyard near me with Graves from the 1800s that are untouched