Many public cemeteries allow the use of certain grave sites for only five years.

This can all be very different in public cemeteries.

The weather was warm, and he was buried with indecent haste in one of the public cemeteries.

Many poor urban dwellers make their homes in public cemeteries, converting abandoned tombs and mausoleums into houses.

And for many of those buried in public cemeteries, dying does not always mean resting in peace.

In Johannesburg there are 32 public cemeteries, plus a handful of private ones, according to the City of Johannesburg.

Those of his own nondescript army who gave up their lives on the 26th were buried in the public cemeteries.

Term limits for graves are even stricter in Hong Kong, which requires the removal of bodies from public cemeteries after six years.

Earlier, the city hall said the city's 14 public cemeteries would stop accepting more bodies because staff there did not have adequate protective gear.

(871) "C'est ici l'asile du sommeil 'eternel," was the republican inscription over all the public cemeteries.