Not something I've ever given any thought to, but how many cemeteries are there in the Vancouver area?
Are they filling up? Can most of them expand? Are there plans for new ones? if so how does that go? Are they a city issue or do private companies own/run them?
This is an article about Coquitlam and its Cemetery that is running out of room.
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Coquitlam grapples with the rising cost of death
With a growing population and rising land value, the city of Coquitlam released a draft cemetery plan this week outlining how it plans to cope with the cost of burying the city's dead.
Stefan Labbé / Tri-City News
MARCH 9, 2019
Photograph By STEFAN LABBÉ
The city of Coquitlam released a new draft cemetery services plan this week that sketches out a roadmap for the future of Robinson Memorial Park Cemetery over the next 30 to 40 years.
The plan comes after the city realized, if nothing were done, traditional burial plots would run out in the next three to four years.
But opening up space for more burials has necessitated a re-imagination of a traditional cemetery.
In a metro area where land is a premium and municipalities struggle to find solutions to a housing crisis, they also now find themselves grappling with the rising cost of dying.
As Coun. Bonita Zorillo put to council last June, “If no city decided to expand or zone, how does B.C. as a province and Canada as a country plan to deal with death as a society?"
Based on population growth and data on burial preferences, the city of Coquitlam calculated they would need to bury or cremate 31,000 people over the next 50 years.
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https://www.tricitynews.com/news/coquitlam-grapples-with-the-rising-cost-of-death-1.23658894
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