37. Cuba’s Boneyard Was a Macabre Place
In parts of Europe and Cuba, there was once a custom requiring families to pay to keep their dearly departed interred. When the families stopped paying, a gravedigger would dig up the body and bring it to a boneyard so that someone with financial means could use the grave. By the end of the nineteenth century, the boneyard was 30 feet deep in Cuba. Having boneyards for people whose families couldn’t pay to keep them interred was a pretty common thing.
