How long can someone be buried on cemetery at Corfu.?

Question

Only serious answers please:
How many years can you rest in peace at a cementary in Corfu?
Here in Belgium it's only 7 -20 years (in hired ground) or 50-100 years in (sold ground concesion).In Ireland it's for always.
Thanks in advance for the answers.

Answer 1

In Greece, generally, you are buried for 3 years, and you get an extension of 6 months I think if the body is not completely disintegrated after 3 years. If you own a grave, it's forever or until your relatives sell it to someone else - they can be quite expensive.

Answer 2

It really depends on the cemetery. This is how it usually works: A cemetery is filled in rows from one side to the other. When all available space is filled, they go back at the start and exhume the older graves and replace them with new ones. The time of course varies. In a old village with a huge cemetery and small population it takes for ever. In a city its faster. It takes at least three years. In Greece however we have the tradition of exhuming the grave and keeping the bones. The bones are exhumed and kept in a ossuary. It is a very common and old practice.
Anyway one can stay buried for very very long time as long as someone pays for it... Unless you are buried in the Fist Athens Cemetery, that's where the state funerals are done and basically stay there of ever.