While reading the various comments on cemetery use, I get the impression that embalming is very common in the U.S. Can someone give me an answer on this? Here in Australia I believe it is done very rarely, the only time I have heard of embalming being done was for a man who died in Europe and was flown home. I am the secretary of our local cemetery trust and there is no limited tenure on the plots, but in the bigger cities, I know that some only have a tenure for 20 - 30 years. Our cemetery is looked after by the community and we hold regular working bees to look after it. Joan Vivian [email protected] Searching for VIVIAN/VYVYAN, MORESI, TURIN, HOLMES, JUDD, JENKYN, QUICK