If I buy and own a burial plot, and it's large enough, can I camp there while I'm alive?

Your “buying” the plot isn’t like buying property. You don’t pay taxes on the property, you don’t have a deed recorded with the county. And there are probably a ton of restrictions.

Short answer, no, you can’t camp there.

@zenvelo The purchase is taxed, there’s a receipt for it-registered as a burial site. What ton of restrictions are you no-ing about? We’ll give you a second shot at it…....

Ha ha :)

You can try camping there. After a while the guards from that place will get to know you and won’t tell you that you cannot stay there nor tell you to leave and then you can enjoy your site ^^

And twisted it’s only a nice / good way of putting it. A bit weird but we all are like this though most of us won’t admit it.

Have fun there.

I’m sure they’d be fine with it, on the condition that you camp underground in a coffin. They normally have regulations about things that don’t fit with the mood of the place.

You certainly would give a whole new meaning to the phrase,“Rushing to the grave”.

You need to be very dead before you can legally spend the night in a cemetery.

I do not know about any other state, but in GA, you buy the right to be buried (or have someone else buried) in the plot, you are not actually buying the land. The cemetery still owns the land and has to pay any applicable property tax. The tax you paid was probably sales tax. We did print up ‘deeds’ once the property was paid in full; however, it was for right of internment not actual possession of land.

No trespassing signs are over gravesites. This is for a reason…..homeless people love to live there. No trespassing also includes you and I, unless we are there for a funeral.

I understand your question. Just think what gravesites would be like, if all the homeless people discovered their aunt or uncle had a paid-for site there and they decided to camp on that one particular grave plot.

I am sure it would tick you off as well as the other gravesite owners.

And no, AllAbout Waiting you cannot live there.

Perhaps if you use up only a piece of land that is 75” x 33”.

And you’d have to be prepared to move every time the lawn mower guy showed up.

You’d also need to levitate in order to not desecrate the graves of others.

My plot is in an orthodox Jewish cemetery so no working (include driving) from sundown on Friday night to sundown on Sat.

It sounds like you’re all checked out on the ownership end, but have you considered specific camping laws for the area? For instance, where I’m from there is no camping whatsoever according to the town, in order to, “protect the Island’s fragile environment.”

I have a plot where my husband is located and I will go when it’s my time…I have wanted to camp there, but even in the cemetery that we chose because of family history, you can’t even put anything sticking out of the ground or the grounds crew comes and takes it and throws it out…it’s like a gated community for dead people. The whole thing pisses me off more and more when I think about it. I see people who have had accidents on street corners and unfortunatley die then their loved ones set up shrines for free! I pay for the damn thing and I get to look at a flat stone and only buy fresh flowers. There is a spot located in the big city next to me that even has a “ghost bike”. (a bike painted White locked to the street sign where the person died). I guess I suck…my husband died in the hospital…I don’t think they or the new patient would be to happy with me setting up shrine in the room :/
I’m not against anyone memorialising their loved ones…I’m against the fact that I can’t…My family chose the stupidest cemetery. IMO.

I am guessing you would be violating zoning laws. Plus, usually operators of cemeterys require that everyone (alive) leave at sunset.

they lock the cemetery gates at about 4 pm, so I’m sure they make sure everyone is out first.

you are going to camp six feet under?

I would suggest if you wanna camp you should actually go camping down under and see some zombies

Preferably before you assume the position for this guy:

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Generally, if you want to camp in the cemetery, they require that you buy a plot of at least 50X100. You have to perk it, too, to make sure there is enough water to live and to assure that a septic system will have enough space to take care of waste. I think they frown on Port-a-potties.

Your tent will have to blend into the background so as not to offend the eyes of other mourners. You will not be allowed to stay there if you wear a path through the grass. You will have to take a different route to your tent every time you come back.

Food will be a problem. You’ll only be able to eat prepared foods. No cooking on site. It’s not just the fire concerns, but the smells tend to offend the residents.

Who are another problem. They are accustomed to taking strolls at night while their coffins are aired out. Unfortunately, the dead are a rather dull bunch, and they never vary their routines. You will have to expect them to stumble through your tent at all hours of the night. Not exactly the kind of party mates you might want.

All in all, I would suggest you do not pursue this course of action, except, of course, if you are dead, yourself. But then, why would you need a tent?

This is from one cemetery’s list of restrictions:
No lot or grave in the Cemetery shall be used for any other purpose than a place of burial for the human dead. Source

Considering most, if not all, cemeteries have visiting hours, my guess is that you’d get the boot, and fast.

Besides the rules of the cemetery there may be local zoning restrictions and requirements for habitation. You’ll need basic sanitary facilities at least.