This will add further pressure to municipal graveyards, some of which are running out of burial space.

BBC: Glanogwen churchyard, Bethesda

If I'm still here in15 years' time I will have to find more burial space, but the cost of land is premium.

BBC: Glanogwen churchyard, Bethesda

The town council estimates it will run out of burial space in five to 10 years, and residents could be forced to use plots outside of their community.

BBC: Nelly Jacobs

"Belfast City Council are looking to purchase additional land for burial, possibly in conjunction with the neighbouring councils of Lisburn or Newtownabbey because the lack of burial space is getting critical, " she added.

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Cardiff council is about to finish an extension at Thornhill cemetery and is in the process of planning for an extension at Western cemetery, which will add another 10 to 20 years of burial space.

BBC: Glanogwen churchyard, Bethesda

"I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone, " Koch told The Associated Press in 2008 after purchasing a burial plot in Trinity Church Cemetery, at the time the only graveyard in Manhattan that still had space.

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