Once the family leaves, a representative from the funeral home stays with the casket as it is lowered and the grave is completely closed. This often occurs immediately after the family has left.
Graveside/cemetery services are performed literally beside the grave. The family gathers around the coffin sitting above the dug grave. The coffin is interred after the family leaves.
Not always and never in countries where the graves are used over again. In the US the practice of placing the caskets in concrete (or metal) containers is very common although there is no law requiring it. Many cemeteries demand grave liners or burial vaults (hermetically sealed grave liners) to prevent the grave from caving in when heavy machinery is used on the lawn or when wooden caskets deteriorate.
It will continue to detoriate unless the family steps in and make sure the grave is tended to. Most wealthy people will have a perpetual care policy that will take care of the grave for a long time.
What "happens" depends on you.
A double grave is typically dug to a depth of about 6 to 8 feet, allowing space for two caskets to be placed one on top of the other. The exact depth can vary based on local regulations and soil conditions. Additionally, the grave must be deep enough to accommodate proper burial practices while ensuring the safety and respect for the deceased.
The family stared at the grave as the wind whistled through the air.
Laertes jumps into the grave
Grave goods were typically stored in the burial sites alongside the deceased, often placed in or around the coffin or within the grave itself. In some cultures, these items were also placed in dedicated storage areas or containers, such as urns or caskets, to protect them during burial. Additionally, in certain archaeological contexts, grave goods might be found in separate compartments or chambers within elaborate tombs or burial mounds.
it will all dissappear
John Wilkes Booth's grave is unmarked due to family request.
They don't like them
A Pauper's grave is basically a cheap grave where poor people -commonly used in reference to musicians /artists who left this world with little money- are buried.A Pauper's grave in not a cheap grave and should not be treated as cheap. It is a free burial for someone that has no money to bury their family or used for an unknown . Otherwise know as a County Burial. Cemeteries have always had a Pauper grave section and is still used today. Very poor people did not have the money to bury their family and they still died. The United States Great Depression had many pauper burials as families were starving, and with no money for food, there was no money to bury their family. There should not be any shame in a pauper grave burial. Family still can gather monies together and put a headstone on their family member in the Pauper Section, no matter how many years it takes. It also does not matter if it is in the Pauper Grave Section, headstones are always excepted by the cemeteries. I have added a grave marker to a pauper burial in my family, 90 years after death and I do visit his grave.