Can Your Cemetery Really Bury You Forever? | Planet Money | NPR

If you die in America, chances are the cemetery is going to promise to maintain your grave forever. Americans take this for granted, but it is a whacky, wild promise that we maybe should not be making.

In a lot of other countries, you basically rent a grave unil they dig up your bones to make room for the next guy. And yet, in America this forever-grave thing is actually in most states' law. With the exception of religious cemeteries (which often do this anyways), the state regulates how cemeteries save to ensure, theoretically, that they can maintain a grave forever.

It's a weird country to die in. So, we made a weirder video about it.

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Host
Jacob Goldstein

Producers
Bronson Arcuri
Ben Nadaff-Hafrey

Editor
Bronson Arcuri

Audio Engineer
Josh Rogosin

Assistant Producers
Dani Lyman
Adrienne St. Clair

Illustrations
CJ Riculan

Cast
Ben De La Cruz
Kara Frame
Maria Godoy
Nick Michael
Khalon Richard
Emily Sullivan
Maia Stern

Series Creative Director
Mito Habe-Evans

Consulting Producers
Alex Goldmark
Bryant Urstadt

Executive Producer
Keith Jenkins

Special Thanks
Tregaron Conservancy

Archival Media
Howard Lewis
Jessica Mullen
Prelinger Archive
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