How do you ensure you wont lose a gravesite if there isnt a marker?
All cemeteries, regardless of whether they are conventional or natural, are required by law to keep careful records of precise burial locations, and gravesites are recorded with local governments and often times with state historical societies. Even headstones degrade over time, as is seen in many 100+ year-old cemeteries, so these careful records are what guarantee gravesites can be identified well into the future. Also, when feasible TNL will use methods of marking burial spots that are employed by other green cemeteries, such as utilizing GPS coordinates, marking the corners of each lot with survey markers, and/or marking the head and foot of each grave with ceramic magnets or special magnetized nails that can be readily found with a hand-held metal detector.
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