family plots

Shared cemetery lots

Family plots are burial areas in cemeteries reserved for members of a single family, allowing relatives to be interred near one another across generations: They bought a family plot with space for six graves.

The term also refers to storylines centered on family relationships and conflicts in fiction: The novel's family plot involves a disputed inheritance.

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estate · dark past · crypt · cemetery · lineage · ancestry · intrigue · soap opera · schemes · power struggle · drama · secrets · conspiracy · descendants · burial ground · six feet under · columbarium · inheritance

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burial arrangement type

family plotsash scattering

Distributing cremated remains outdoors

unmarked graves · mass graves · potter's field · sea burial · sky burial

Family

family, plot, family plot

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Top 200,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG