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If you choose traditional burial of the body or cremated remains, you will need to purchase a cemetery plot unless you are eligible for burial at no cost in a veterans cemetery. Prices may vary widely among cemeteries and among different locations in the same cemetery. There is also a fee for opening and closing the grave, and you will probably be required to buy an outer burial container if the cemetery requires one. In addition, you will need to pay an endowment care fee for cemetery maintenance and groundskeeping.

Burial in a mausoleum (entombment) involves purchase of a crypt, opening and closing fees, and charges for endowment care and other services

If the cemetery allows it, you may be able to arrange burial in the same grave as your spouse or other family member. People who are not related may be buried in a multiple-depth grave if all parties authorize it in advance. Burial in a multiple-depth grave may limit disinterment rights. There may be special fees for opening and closing a multiple-depth grave.

The purchase of cemetery property is a personal family decision.  Remember, its forever.  

Select a cemetery you will be comfortable with.