perpetual care
Forever tended grounds
Perpetual care is a cemetery arrangement where a portion of the burial plot purchase goes into a fund for ongoing maintenance—mowing, landscaping, and upkeep of the grounds in perpetuity.
The term appears in cemetery contracts and on signs: Perpetual care cemetery.
Despite the name, "perpetual" depends on the fund remaining solvent.
- columbariumStructure housing cremated remains
- headstoneMemorial slab marking burial
- gravesitePlace of interment
- endowmentPermanent donated fund
- cryptSubterranean burial vault
resting place · mausoleum · trust fund · fiduciary duty · groundskeeping · escrow account · stewardship · legacy planning · responsibility · deed · contract · legacy · beneficiary · preservation · irrevocable trust · trust agreement · cemetery plots · family plot
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- cemeterygrave, headstone, headstones, graves, tombstone
- funeral costsfuneral, casket, burial, cremation, embalming
- burial lawburial plots, burial grounds, burial records, disinterment, home burial
- cemeteriescemetery, graves, grave, burial, headstones
- war memorialwar memorial, military cemetery, national cemetery, Arlington National Cemetery, war dead
level of commitment/attention
perpetual careabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
neglect · dereliction · disrepair · disuse · decay