Will The USA Run Out Of Space To Bury People Before You Die?
A Thought Experiment.
4 min readSep 17, 2020
Cemeteries sit alone in country fields or in the shade of skyscrapers. They dot the countryside and cityscapes from one town to the next, marked and unmarked worldwide.
Washington Square Park in New York City has more than 20,000 people buried under it alone; in fact, with very few of the public that walks above having any idea what has kept any development of the park at bay.