text: I bought 2 burial plots last year during the local Catholic cemetery's half-price sale.  Two adjacent plots cost me $2200.  I could pay ahead or wait until needed, but the opening of each grave will cost $1300.  Headstone will be about $5K (all have to be a standard model).  Casket and concrete crypt will need to  be purchased later when needed.  It is not cheap to be buried, even in a Catholic cemetery.  Interment of cremains in the ocean seems just as nice and a bit less expensive.