text: Yes, for some, the practice of visiting graves, bringing flowers, etc are important. They should choose a burial site that accomodates this desire.  
  
  The issue is choice.
  
  This choice should be up to the person to make before death, or for the family itself to make. The hierarchy is trying to impose its will on people instead of respecting their choices as individuals and as families. 
  
  I hope to have a "green burial" (near my home, not an official "Catholic"cemetary, but the land  owned  Catholic religious order). Permanent markers are banned. Anyone who has visited old cemetaries is aware that the writing on the markers disappears after a century or a few centuries anyway.
  
    I wish to have a simple burial, a couple of readings, previously chosen and included in my estate plan, but family may add others if they wish, only family and maybe a couple of very close friends notified.   I have no desire to contribute to the expensive death industry that has grown up in the US.