This Cemetery Groundskeeper Did An AMA, And People Had A LOT Of Questions, Here Are The Fascinating Things They Shared

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“Why do I see really old headstones with ‘perpetual care’ on them, yet they’re cracked, toppled over, or broken? Doesn’t perpetual care mean they paid so that if it ever broke, no matter how far into the future, it would be fixed? What happens when those old mausoleums start crumbling? Does anyone fix it, or will it just continue to fall apart? What if the mausoleum gets so bad that the coffin is exposed?” —Inevitable-Plenty203

“Mausoleums are typically family property. I can’t speak for other cemeteries, but for us, when something like that happens, we file insurance and have stones replaced. Very old stones don’t get replaced for a number of reasons — the perpetual care didn’t exist at the time of the burial, likely was family responsibility, or it’s simply so old that insurance won’t do anything about it.”