I would imagine in the near future, cremation will be mandatory due to population growth and lack of land for cemeteries! http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/health...udy/index.html
There is plenty of land in my area and funerals/burials still cost mad money. Here are my recent funeral ditties: A year and a half ago I paid for the cremation only of a woman who died unexpectedly with no insurance whose kids were making no effort to get around to doing anything out of their own pocket because even though I disliked her, she had done a former sister in law a pretty big solid. That was a few dollars under a grand. A run of the mill funeral and burial in 2014 ran almost $16K with close to $3K of that the tombstone; in 2013 a cremation package with embalming/viewing and then cremation ran $5300 but that including a fancy $500 urn. The same cremation package without the urn ran $3600 in 2011
